[Ways]

by Barry Schwabsky

Poetry. In Barry Schwabsky's new book [WAYS], he offers a sequence of fifteen non-sonnets meditating on difficult love. It is presented aspart of a collaboration with Korean artist Hong Seung-Hye, whose work appears not as a form of illustration but rather a deceptively simple, discreet, and elegant graphic complement to-- and extension of--the poet's words. [WAYS] is Schwabsky's first publicationsince his startling debut collection OPERA: POEMS 1981-2002, which Publishers Weekly praised as an "intensely wrought, luminously gripping book" distinguished by what Bookforum called "dazzling modulations of phrase and tone." OPERA is also available from SPD.

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Barry Schwabsky is an American poet and the art critic for The Nation. His recent books include Trembling Hand Equilibrium (Black Square Editions, 2015), The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present (Verso, 2017), Heretics of Language (Black Square Editions, 2018), and Landscape Painting Now (DAP, 2019). He lives in New York.