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The World Pushes Back Garret Keizer

The World Pushes Back By Garret Keizer

The World Pushes Back by Garret Keizer


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Garret Keizer's first book of poetry, is the winner of the 2018 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. The poems are mostly lyrical, often personal, and always accessible.

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The World Pushes Back: Poems by Garret Keizer

The World Pushes Back, Garret Keizer's first book of poetry, is the winner of the 2018 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. The poems are mostly lyrical, often personal, and always accessible. They have appeared in a number of venues, including Agni, Antioch Review, Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Image, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, and The Texas Review, among others.

The World Pushes Back Reviews

George Santayana wrote, `Spirit chills the flesh and is itself on fire.' If I understand that properly, it could be a way of summing up Garret Keizer's aesthetic in his marvelous The World Pushes Back. But there are such a variety of attitudes in this book, I'll just cite a few - moments like, `to see the garden through/to the stripped harvest,' and `all the lies we tell in our right minds,/and the truths we utter raving,' and `the only thing that is never ironic/is the need for salvation.' Keizer is my favorite kind of moralist, assertive yet complicit. He takes us on a journey through mystery from travail toward understanding that leads us back to mystery. The world remains the world; it is he who pushes back. - Stephen Dunn

The World Pushes Back provides a refreshing surprise in every poem: one reads the deftest of sonnets, say, just before a long free-verse meditation. Of course I'm not talking of technique alone. Ignoring the trendy, Garret Keizer unflaggingly (and only) offers things that matter: love, both eros and agape; anger at social injustice-without facile judgment and with earnestness and wit. A long time coming, this is a breathtaking poetic debut. - Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-2015)

About Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine and the author of eight books of prose, the most recent of which are Getting Schooled (2014), Privacy (2012), and The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want (2010). His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in AGNI, The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review, Lapham's Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. He lives with his wife in northeastern Vermont.

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CIN1680031848VG
9781680031843
1680031848
The World Pushes Back: Poems by Garret Keizer
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Texas Review Press
20190330
96
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