The Park by John Freeman
In The Park, his second book of poetry, John Freeman uses a park as a petri dish, turning a deep gaze on all that pass through it. In language both precise and restrained, Freeman explores the inherent contradictions that arise from a place whose purpose is derived purely from what we bring to it--a park is both natural and constructed, exclusionary and open, unfeeling and burdened with sentimentality. Pulling from both history and his own meditations in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, the seasons pass through famous parks, personal parks, parks beneath parks, and other spaces with fabricated outer limits. Throughout, Freeman wonders at how a park, being both curated and public, can be a nexus for a manifestation of great wealth inequality. How have we created these false boundaries for ourselves--with regard to physical space, but also in our minds and societies, in our personal relationships? Freeman plucks out difference in small daily dramas of people and animals only to dissolve it. Interspersed with meditations on love, beauty, and connection, The Park is a pacific and unflinching mirror cast upon a space defined by its transience.John Freeman is a literary critic and writer from the United States. Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary biannual, and the author of two nonfiction books, The Tyranny of E-mail and How to Read a Novelist, as well as one book of poetry, Maps. He is the former president of the National Book Critics Circle. He has also edited two anthologies of writing on inequality, Tales of Two Cities and Tales of Two Americas, which have been described by Dave Eggers as one of the preeminent book people of our time. He lives in New York, where he teaches at The New School and is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University. He was the former editor of Granta. He has poetry in Zyzzyva, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Nation, and is the executive editor of LitHub. More than twenty languages have been used to translate his work.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781556595950 |
| ISBN 10 | 1556595956 |
| Title | The Park |
| Author | John Freeman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Copper Canyon Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2020-06-18 |
| Number of pages | 82 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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