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9781574418958 Academic Inspection Copy

Storm Swimmer

  • ISBN-13: 9781574418958
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
  • By Ernest Hilbert
  • Price: AUD $38.99
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  • Local release date: 29/05/2023
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 90 pages Weight: 272g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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In poems that celebrate survival and renewal, Ernest Hilbert summons the ageless conflict between human affection and the passing of time, recognizing that all we love must eventually disappear. Tender poems of fatherhood weigh against unsettling explorations of natural dangers and intimations of bodily harm. From porn sets to seedy gun ranges and heavy metal tribute nights in crumbling theaters, Hilbert's eye roves over the desolation and beauty of contemporary America, all the while feeling the irresistible pull of water-what Melville called "the ungraspable phantom of life."
ERNEST HILBERT's books include Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan--selected as winner of the 2017 Poets' Prize--and Last One Out. He lives in Philadelphia, where he works as a rare book dealer.
Ernest Hilbert's Storm Swimmer is a gleaming cornucopia of dreams, nightmares, tenderness, and grace. It is a book of great feeling and of great technical skill. Everything in it is sacrificed for poetry, which is why everything in this beautiful book lives." - Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of Heaven and judge
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