{"id":1321,"date":"2017-05-25T21:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1321"},"modified":"2024-01-12T06:42:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T06:42:41","slug":"selah-by-joshua-corey","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/product\/selah-by-joshua-corey\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Selah<\/em>, Joshua Corey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barrow Street 2002 Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Selah Joshua Corey joins a generation of exciting first-book poets (Jennifer Clarvoe, Joanie Mackowski, Cate Marvin come to mind) who apply the fundamental poetic gift of the ear, in new ways. Sheer richness of language, and in the best poems cadences layered like those of Wallace Stevens, guide the reader through Corey\u2019s extravagant, playful, fantastical and profuse otherworld.<br \/>\n\u2014Robert Pinsky<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Corey\u2019s book maps new territory in the indefatigable search for an adequate form of elegy. These poems meditate in a timeless manner on the terrible NOT at the center of death, but they do so to new music, one that embodies sly humor, formal invention, and rhetorical bravado. They are original, sophisticated and unabashed.<br \/>\n\u2014Mary Jo Bang<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deep engager, Joshua Corey seeks to redeem what is \u2018singed\u2019 and \u2018wared\u2019 in us with \u2018the pupa\u2019s word. Dazzled weresong\u2019 (\u2018man\u2019 song, a \u2018we\u2019re\u2019 or \u2018we are\u2019 song), one made strange from the straits of the problem. Through a ravishing compact formal beauty comes \u2018white sound crashing . . . on the shoals of . . . sleep.\u2019 He has gone so far into disillusion and aporia that he seems about to emerge out the other side, as through one of those suddenly wavering, watery space- and time-walls in a science-fiction film. What if it really is as he says: \u2018my mouth is full of his breath. \/ His tongue is in my mouth, and his name \/ is every body I see\u2019? Selah: lift up! He keeps you hooked; he keeps you tantalized.<br \/>\n\u2014Cal Bedient<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/BR29.3\/micros.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Boston Review<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrowstreet.org\/timeout.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><b>Timeout NY<\/b><\/i><b> review February 12, 2004<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applicable bookseller\/retail discount on bulk orders of 10+ copies automatically applied at checkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[20],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1321","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-poetry","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}