Seven Notebooks Poems
Seven Notebooks Poems by Campbell McGrath, published by HarperCollins on February 3, 2009, spans 240 pages and is presented in English. This collection features a range of poetic forms, from haiku to prose, exploring the world through various lenses of perception and imagination. The poems reflect on themes such as language, time, consciousness, and art, while also incorporating elements of everyday life, including bureaucrats and leisure activities.
Readers will find that Seven Notebooks offers a lyrical chronicle of a year in the narrator’s life, capturing the essence of different seasons in locations like Chicago, the Jersey Shore, and Miami Beach. The work presents a diverse array of reflections that engage with the complexities of existence and the human experience. Through its unique structure and voice, the book invites contemplation on the interplay between reality and imagination, making it a noteworthy addition to contemporary poetry.
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An ant to the stars
or stars to the ant—which is
more irrelevant?
Weekend Jet Skiers—
rude to call them idiots,
yes, but facts are facts.
Clamor of seabirds
as the sun falls—I look up
and ten years have passed.”
—from “Dawn Notebook”
Such is the expansive terrain of Seven Notebooks: the world as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Written in forms that range from haiku to prose, and in a voice that veers from incantatory to deadpan, these seven poetic sequences offer diverse reflections on language and poetry, time and consciousness, civilization and art—to say nothing of bureaucrats, surfboards, and blue margaritas. Taken collectively, Seven Notebooks composes a season-by-season account of a year in the life of its narrator, from spring in Chicago to summer at the Jersey Shore to winter in Miami Beach. Not a novel in verse, not a poetic journal, but a lyric chronicle, this utterly unique book reclaims territory long abandoned by American poetry, a characteristic ambition of Campbell McGrath, one of the most honored, accessible, and humanistically engaged writers of our time.
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