Breaths' burials
Subtitle: poems
By: by Gustaf Sobin.
Series: New Directions paperbook ;; 781
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Description: The poems in Gustaf Sobin's newest collection, Breaths' Burials, establish a dialogue with silence. Breath, its syllables buried in the resonant space between the word and the void, unlocks "the gloriole, the ring of things released." Whether Sobin is writing about irises, Venetian architecture, or the wind-blown plateaus of his adopted Provence, his poems are nothing more nor less than a search for the redemptive, celebrating the regeneration of language out of itself.

Breaths' Burials once again confirms the praise of Robert Duncan, who described Sobin's work as "a poetry of great distinction, awakening the spirit to a world of errant clarities renewed."
Notes: Includes index.