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Here is a book that is truly quietly deeply subtle. It appears to operate along the lines of here is how one thing follows another; it appears to rely on anticipated cause and effect to spring us forth from one fraction of a split second’s thought to the next. There are many\u00a0and then<\/i>\u00a0actions in this book. What follows comes as a surprise sometimes even when it shouldn’t. For instance, at one poem’s conclusion it says:\u00a0An archer shoots. That’s what an archer does.<\/i>\u00a0And this is astonishing. And then it is almost heartbreaking and then one must do a double take and then there is poetry.
\n\u2014Dara Wier,\u00a0Remnants of Hannah<\/em>
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A few rare holdouts to the contrary, American culture is loud, unsubtle, insensitive, needy, exhausting, cheaply convenient, unreflective, and above all, distracted. What has been happening behind the scenes during all the years we haven\u2019t been paying attention? What world have we given ourselves and what have we given up in that shallow exchange? Such observations are deeply implied by the poems in Seth Abramson\u2019s\u00a0Thievery<\/em>. At the bottom of this book is the sense that we\u2019ve been ripped off and don\u2019t even know it yet. That we have allowed it has left us stunted, morally and spiritually, with no greater sense of wonder than a Styrofoam cup. Abramson is not preaching, however: he is telling the melancholy, lonely truth.
\n\u2014Maurice Manning,\u00a0The Common Man<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In\u00a0Thievery<\/em>, his third and best book so far, Seth Abramson implicitly locates the source of the disaffection by which we are guided, not in the disasters of the twentieth century, which reconfirmed it, but in an unnameable and centuries-gone past. And by doing so he acknowledges that disaffection as the presence most familiar to us\u2014indeed, its presence makes us familiar to each other: \u201cTo be lost is to be connected \/ interminably.\u201d These are grim and yet also startled poems, at home in a broken world and yet again and again and always surprised by its brokenness, and radiant with the sense that even the world in which one feels at home must be changed for the better.
\n\u2014Shane McCrae,\u00a0Blood<\/em>
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About the author<\/h3>\n
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Seth Abramson<\/h4>\n
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Seth Abramson is the author of two previous collections of poetry,Northerners\u00a0(Western Michigan University Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose, and\u00a0The Suburban Ecstasies\u00a0(Ghost Road Press, 2009). Presently a doctoral candidate (ABD) in English Literature at University of Wisconsin-Madison,\u00a0Series Co-Editor for\u00a0Best American Experimental Writing\u00a0(forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2014),\u00a0and a contemporary poetry reviewer for\u00a0The Huffington Post, he has published work in numerous magazines and anthologies, including\u00a0Best New Poets\u00a0(University of Virginia Press, 2008),\u00a0Poetry of the Law\u00a0(University of Iowa Press, 2010),\u00a0AGNI,\u00a0American Poetry Review,\u00a0Boston Review,\u00a0Colorado Review,\u00a0Harvard Review,\u00a0jubilat,\u00a0New American Writing, and\u00a0Poetry. In 2008, he was awarded the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize by\u00a0Poetry.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thievery<\/h2>\n

by Seth Abramson<\/h3>\n

Pages: 79; Size: 6 x 9
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