Steven Cramer

Broschiertes Buch

As If

Variations on Enrique Anderson-Imbert

Herausgeber: Cleary, Eileen

Beschreibung

In this eccentric suite of fabulist lyrics, Steven Cramer transforms twenty-one "microcuentos" by the Argentine writer Enrique Anderson-Imbert (1910-2000) into fresh, epigrammatic poetry. Anderson-Imbert's magical realism emerges in Cramer's free verse as an unpredictable fusion of style between European Surrealism and American vernacular. Funny and spooky by turns, these riffs often stray far from the prose originals, adding the textures and junctures unique to verse. Lively with birdsong and music box ballerinas, somber with hospitalized fathers and history's chess pieces, As If invites us into dream worlds-from the festive to the funereal-we didn't know we'd imagined.

Autor

As If: Variations on EnriqueAnderson-Imbert is StevenCramer's first chapbook. Hisprevious seven books are TheEye that Desires to Look Upward(Galileo Press, 1987); TheWorld Book (Copper BeechPress, 1992); Dialogue for theLeft and Right Hand (LumenEditions/Brookline Books,1997); Goodbye to the Orchard(Sarabande Books, 2004)-winner of the 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New EnglandPoetry Club and named a 2005 Honor Book in Poetry by theMassachusetts Center for the Book-Clangings (Sarabande Books,2012); Listen (MadHat Press, 2020), long-listed as a "must read" bythe Massachusetts Center for the Book; and Departures from Rilke(Arrowsmith Press, 2023). His poems and reviews have appearedin The Atlantic Monthly, Field, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The NewRepublic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and other journals.His work is represented in anthologies such as The Autumn HouseAnthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Autumn House Press,2005 and 2011), The Book of Villanelles (Knopf Everyman's LibraryPocket Poets Series, 2012), and The POETRY Anthology, 1912-2002(Ivan R. Dee, 2002). He has also written essays for Simply Lasting:Writers on Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press, 2005); Touchstones: Ameri-can Poets on a Favorite Poem (Middlebury College Press, 1996); andUntil Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the RecentWork of W.S. Merwin (WordFarm, 2012). Recipient of fellowshipsfrom the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endow-ment for the Arts, he has taught literature and writing at Benning-ton College, Boston University, M.I.T., and Tufts University; and hefounded the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing atLesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lily Poetry Review
• Seitenzahl: 38
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 72g
• ISBN-13: 9781957755601
• ISBN-10: 1957755601
• Artikelnr.: 75288027