The Chain by Tom Sleigh

The Chain by Tom Sleigh

In "The Chain", Sleigh explores the nature of memory - its ability to recast events in contradictory ways as it links individual lives to history. The poet reveals the ways in which the individual consciousness, alternately resisting and embracing its ancestral legacy, seeks to transform, in order to comprehend, the meaning of cultural inheritance. In a series of elegies, portraits, and love poems, he dramatizes the ambiguous nature of truth and the difficulties the moral imagination must overcome in recalling, understanding, and judging the past.

Tom Sleigh's books of poetry include Army Cats, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Updike Award, and Space Walk, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. He is also the author of Interview with a Ghost. He teaches at Hunter College in New York.

Praise for Tom Sleigh

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I greatly admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. --Seamus Heaney

Sleigh has been publishing formidable poetry for almost thirty years, and among American poets of his generation there is no one better. --David Wojahn, Tikkun

An indispensable contemporary American poet. --The Boston Globe

What delights me most is seeing a poet of [Sleigh's] accomplishments and his large and well-earned reputation . . . pushing into greatness. --Philip Levine, Ploughshares

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ISBN 13	9780226762401
ISBN 10	0226762408
Title	The Chain
Author	Tom Sleigh
Series	Phoenix Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	1996-02-15
Number of pages	104
Prizes	Short-listed for Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 1997
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