Letters to a Stranger: Poems by Thomas James (English) Paperback Book

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The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas James I will last forever. I am not impatient—My skin will wait to greet its old complexions.I’ll lie here till the world swims back again.                —from “Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh” Thomas James’s "Letters to a Stranger"—originally published in 1973, shortly before James’s suicide—has become one of the underground classics of contemporary poetry. In this new edition, with an introduction by Lucie Brock-Broido and four of James’s poems never before published in book form, this fraught and moving masterpiece is at last available."""" "Letters to a Stranger" is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Mark Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.

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The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas JamesI will last forever. I am not impatient--My skin will wait to greet its old complexions.I'll lie here till the world swims back again.--from "Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh" Thomas James's Letters to a Stranger--originally published in 1973, shortly before James's suicide--has become one of the underground classics of contemporary poetry. In this new edition, with an introduction by Lucie Brock-Broido and four of James's poems never before published in book form, this fraught and moving masterpiece is at last available. Letters to a Stranger is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Mark Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.

Author Biography

Thomas James (1946-74) was from Joliet, Illinois. Letters to a Stranger, which won the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest in 1969, was his only book of poetry.

Review

"Letters to a Stranger is a book of dark intensities and deeply felt connections, both haunted and haunting, at once brooding, sensual and lucid . . . The voice in these poems--painfully lonely and filled with longing, estranged and religious--has stayed with me for more than twenty years. It deserves to be remembered." --Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post

Review Quote

"Letters to a Strangeris a book of dark intensities and deeply felt connections, both haunted and haunting, at once brooding, sensual and lucid . . . The voice in these poems-painfully lonely and filled with longing, estranged and religious-has stayed with me for more than twenty years. It deserves to be remembered." -Edward Hirsch,The Washington Post

Details ISBN155597502X Author Lucie Brock-Broido Short Title LETTERS TO A STRANGER Publisher Graywolf Press Language English ISBN-10 155597502X ISBN-13 9781555975029 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Year 2008 DOI 10.1604/9781555975029 Imprint Graywolf Press Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2008-06-24 NZ Release Date 2008-06-24 US Release Date 2008-06-24 UK Release Date 2008-06-24 Subtitle Poems Pages 88 Series Re/View Publication Date 2008-06-24 Audience General We've got this

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