Product Details Publisher: WW Norton (2022-08-16) Language: English Paperback: 96 pages ISBN-13: 9781324021858 Item Weight: 107.73 grams Dimensions: 8.24 x 6.1 x 0.3 cm A lyrical new volume from a poet “beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets” (Harold Bloom). With irony, in mourning tinged with eros, one of our most extraordinary poets blends the personal and the political to meditate on damage, aging, and injustice. The poems in So Forth surge back in memory, pondering guilt and forgiveness. Consciousness flows from singular to plural; identity in these poems does a round dance with other personae, with formidable women artists of the past in the powerful sequence “Legende of Good Women,” with pre-Socratic philosophers, and with lovers, children, and strangers—the strangest of whom is the face in the mirror. In response to griefs both historical and contemporary, So Forth contemplates the quest for the holy and traditions of the sacred. About the Author Rosanna Warren is the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, Departure, and Ghost in a Red Hat. She has been awarded the Sara Teasdale Prize for Poetry, three Pushcart Prizes, the Readers’ Digest Award and the recipient of awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters (Award of Merit in Poetry and the Witter Bynner Prize), the Academy of American Poets (Lamont Poetry Prize and the Lavan Younger Poets Prize), the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the New England Poetry Club (May Sarton Prize) and the Nation Discovery Award. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
