A Sonnet of Mudras
/ A collaboration between Ashwini Bhat & Forrest Gander
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On Books by Forrest Gander
“A complex reading experience punctuated by intense beauty”
“One answer to the way death ‘constructs silence’ is to believe, as does Gander, that the soul is ‘multilingual in the same tongue.’ His trinity of natural science, spirit, and language tempts us to believe it’s so.”
“Forrest Gander is insistently, often gorgeously, a poet of space—the spaces of landscape and geology, the spaces of erotic and patrilineal bodies, and the spaces among and inside the words on the page of a poem . . . . If Gander’s philosophical strain and flamboyant lingo suggest Wallace Stevens, and his conversance with science and his stress on the “ongoing” recall A. R. Ammons, he insinuates a knotty, digressive intensity that is fully his own.”
“Gander has always been an innovative poet, and one deeply concerned with the events, and languages, beyond America’s borders…. he brings the world’s frightening and beautiful strangeness far beyond the edge of the page.”