Celestial Mechanics
Autor Anthony Waltonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2026
A journey through heaven and earth for the questing mind. Navigating from the clockwork music of the spheres to the "melismatic celebration of disaster" that is the blues, these are poems that map the places where orderly cosmic harmony and dissonance converge.
"If only the world were as orderly as Bach, if there were no need for gospel, no need for jazz, no need for the blues." As Anthony Walton writes, centuries ago, Johannes Kepler observed that the universe was a form of music.
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It made me understand that there was more to music than resolution, that there were other sorts of beauty. That beauty could be pain, and balm could be fit to the jagged shadows of my experience.
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Whether his subject is Sir Isaac Newton or street traffic, Walton is always surprising, with humanity and passion in every line. Celestial Mechanics is more than a book of poetry; it is an "Ars Poetica" for the heart.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1567928714
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 152 x 215 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Notă biografică
Anthony Walton is the author of the acclaimed prose works Mississippi: An American Journey and The End of Respectability. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and The Library of America. A member of the faculty at Bowdoin College for over three decades, he is a recipient of the Whiting Award and has co-edited landmark anthologies of African American poetry: Every Shut-Eye Ain't Asleep and The Vintage Anthology of African American Poetry.