Climbing Back: Poems

Author/Contributor(s):	Martinez, Dionisio D ; Graham, Jorie
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	12/01/2001
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Heartbreaking, overstuffed, seeping with history, lonelier than imaginable and truly in-the-face of American culture, Climbing Back's debris-field of prose poems tries with all its heart to outrun cultural paradigms and ends up refining our spiritual ignorance till it's our most gorgeous attribute.--from Jorie Graham's citation for the National Poetry Series. Dionisio D. Martínez's Climbing Back is an epic-poetic-cinematic response to culture, a one-book shorthand to the 20th century and beyond, a series of responses to the world that are imaginative rather than reductive.--Susan Hussey, Organica