Liver
Liver by Charles Harper Webb, published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1999, is a collection of poetry that spans 106 pages. This edition presents a multifaceted exploration of life through Webb’s unique lens, combining humor with heartbreak and depth with accessibility. The poems engage with themes of existence and the human experience, drawing on the metaphor of the liver as a symbol of vitality and resilience.
Readers will find that the poems in Liver approach their subjects with a whirlwind of emotions, balancing raw energy with meticulous craft. Webb’s work invites contemplation on the complexities of life, celebrating both the spirit and the physical body. The collection reflects a range of sentiments, from joy to sorrow, affirming the richness of the world around us. This edition, written in English, offers a thoughtful journey through the intricacies of human experience, making it a significant contribution to American poetry.
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The poems in Liver come at the reader from many angles at once, like a whirlwind or a warm shower. Charles Harper Webb is a poet of contradictions: humor and heartbreak, depth and accessibility, playfulness and seriousness, raw energy and careful craft. His poems glorify the spirit, but also the flesh, exemplified by the liver, the “organ whose name contains the injunction Live!… great One-Who-Lives, so we can too.” Even at their darkest, their most outraged and sorrowing, Webb’s poems affirm the world, and help us live in it gladly.
Winner of the 1999 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, Selected by Robert Bly
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