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by: Thomas James
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9781555975029
ISBN: 155597502X
Label: Graywolf Press
Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 88
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Sales Rank: 204166
Studio: Graywolf Press
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The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas James
I will last forever. I am not impatient—
My skin will wait to greet its old complexions.
I’ll lie here till the world swims back again.
—from “Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh” Thomas James’s Letters to a Stranger—originally published in 1973, shortly before James’s suicide—has become one of the underground classics of contemporary poetry. In this new edition, with an introduction by Lucie Brock-Broido and four of James’s poems never before published in book form, this fraught and moving masterpiece is at last available.
Letters to a Stranger is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Mark Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.
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Rating: - Easily the Most Vital Poetry Release of the Year
God bless Mark Doty and Lucie Brock-Broido for demonstrating the compassion and discernment that only great lovers of poetry could possess: Thomas James's book, "Letters to A Stranger," came to me in bits and pieces amid a graduate poetry workshop with Laurie Sheck at the New School in NYC. I was instantaneously blown away, to such an extent that I called Houghton Mifflin myself and asked them what we could do to have the book--originally published by them in 1973--reprinted (only to ultimately learn ... Read More
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