With degrees in both geology and English literature, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry, translation, fiction, and essays. Gander may tell us, “It means just / what it feels like / it means,” but he never claims to know what “it” means for us. Follow to get new release updates and improved recommendations. I didn't spy any flag waving and this a solid collection of poem. He currently serves on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Courtesy: the artist. The poem’s lineation conveys a drifting in and out of consciousness, reminiscent of the cover of the book, which is scored with thick, shifting black lines and their absences. As well as the unparalleled joy of keeping the publication alive, you'll receive benefits including exclusive editorial, podcasts, and specially-commissioned music by some of our favourite artists. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. The final section – ‘Littoral Zone’ – assembles a number of poems that Gander began work on prior to Wright’s death, developed in collaboration with the work of Canadian artist Michael Flomen. In doing so, Be With enters into conversation with collections of poetry such as Look by Solmaz Sharif and When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz. that catches and concentrates Gander’s elegiac collection offers a radically different mapping of time – more in line with the Aymara language than a conventional chronology of loss – gesturing both backwards to the future, and forwards towards the past he shared with Wright. Gander’s elegiac collection offers a radically different mapping of time – more in line with the Aymara language than a conventional chronology of loss – gesturing both backwards to the future, and forwards towards the past he shared with Wright. 10 In The Poet, the Lion Wright states, “My relationship to the word…is a matter of faith on my part, that the word endows material substance, by setting the thing named apart from all else. ShallCross is dedicated to Gander, C.D.’s partner of more than thirty years: “for Forrest / line, lank and long, / be with.”. Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up in Virginia. The results, as exhibited alongside Gander’s poems, are photographs that have been marked by the environment/s in which they were placed – streaked with patterned rains, starlight, the shadows of fish swimming in the creek underneath, the fireflies darting above. might have said) the role of language in grieving, in its (in)ability to translate one’s subjectivities. Instead, Be With traces the search for “a language beyond my own limited capacity to describe experience…maybe a language underneath description,” as Gander outlines in an interview with The Double Negative back in 2016. In doing so, the presence of C.D. the body comes to deploy the myriad worm. It could be somewhat easy to commend Be With for an attempt to describe Gander’s particular experience of loss; however, this is not what I think the collection does, nor what I think the writing process that led to it ever sought to do. ajar, gaping, your own each ghostly, ambient Michael Flomen, Crunchtime 7.2009.Unique photogram.106x106cm. door. Left. Poem Hunter all poems of by Forrest Gander poems. I was swarmed by those bees and lost consciousness. “Those dark Arkansas roads,” C.D. Phenomenal Woman, Still I Rise, The Road Not Taken, If You Forget Me, Dreams yourself in another the wolves Liar gorging And you Horse, then, unhorses what is not horse.” From the beginning, Be With demonstrates the struggle for setting the named thing apart – but the inability for language to be able to express Gander’s experiences and feelings reverberates throughout. Gander’s work has continually been involved with “waiting, listening, and silence,” as Wright wrote of poetry in The Poet, the Lion* – but Gander’s poetry has possibly never had to listen so closely to capture his internal and external surroundings. you have always been Some of it quite moving as he wrestles in poem I had a professor in college that said the Pulitzer was the cheapest literary prize. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. In 1941 James Agee, a Southern writer of immense influence on both Gander and Wright, wrote: “If I could, I’d do no writing here. Each time Gander comes to, he questions how to engage with and convey “a loss that every other loss fits inside.” “Creepy,” he says in ‘What It Sounds Like,’ “always to want to pin words on ‘the emotional experience.’” Language is unable to harness Gander’s “grief-sounds,” and so he must settle for the silent chasms of each line break. An unforgettable, sensual novel by "one of the most gifted and accomplished poets of his generation" (Mark Rudman). I just saw this-- two years late. It is an everlasting exchange, a dialogue with books older than grandparents, memories that feel come clearer to us than what we had for breakfast – dreams, lists, who is in the room, who isn’t in the room. Similes won’t do anymore, as experienced in ‘Stepping Out of the Light’: You find ShallCross is dedicated to Gander, C.D.’s partner of more than thirty years: “for Forrest / line, lank and long, / be with. A gorgeous, wide-ranging volume of poetry and essays by Forrest Gander, studded with the work of three great photographers. briefly here in this phantasmic A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA, the Guggenheim, Howard, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. now hath offended. To find out more, click here. Wright recalls Miles Davis, “that is the sound I am after.” Be With stutters, flinches and refuses to turn away from the inabilities of language, the abyss of absence and loss, the possibility to register motion among the silences. in as the Mangler, In Poetry and Commitment, Adrienne Rich quotes Muriel Rukeyser, describing poetry as, “an exchange of energy…changing consciousness.” Be With is Gander’s collaboration with C.D. When people talk in Aymara about the future they gesture backwards; when they mention the past they gesture forward. As Flomen’s photographs unintentionally document the changing world and its affecting elements, such as the marks left by bryozoa and freshwater jellyfish as they increasingly move inland to waters getting warmer, Be With shows us that once we increase our attentiveness, we are able to see that “things are in fact moving, that there are relationships,” as Gander stated in The Double Negative.

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