Descartes’ Loneliness, is a summation of his work to date, confronting everything from the big questions to the family history with his genial mix of humor and solemnity.

Publishers Weekly

A new, breakthrough collection by one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets (Harold Bloom).

Descartes’ Loneliness

Fiction by Allen Grossman

Allen Grossman’s newest work Descartes’ Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is “remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death.” Poems such as “The Famished Dead,” where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, “one at a time,” confirm Jorie Graham’s observation that “from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard–Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent.”

Paperback(published Dec, 01 2007)

ISBN
9780811217118
Price US
16.95
Price CN
19
Trim Size
6x9
Page Count
70
Portrait of Allen Grossman

Allen Grossman

Contemporary American poet

Descartes’ Loneliness, is a summation of his work to date, confronting everything from the big questions to the family history with his genial mix of humor and solemnity.

Publishers Weekly