{"product_id":"the-biographer-poems-paperback","title":"The Biographer: poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid M. Katz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in an age of memoir. Unlike previous eras, in which readers were encouraged to consider a poem or novel separately from the poet's or novelist's biography, the author's life story seems today to have become the main thing-the primary element upon n In The Biographer, his fifth collection of poems, David M. Katz interrogates and explores that assumption. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book's title poem, Katz's longest published work to date, tackles the issue head on. Heavily researched and packed with crucial themes that are indeed close to this particular poet (immigration, child abandonment, the elusiveness of memory, Judaism), \"The Biographer,\" is nevertheless entirely fictional, spoken by a female narrator who is clearly not the poet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, practically all of the book's other poems might also be called \"biography-adjacent\"-autobiographical, memoirish, impersonated, personal. Recollections of early childhood and family romance play a central part, as do Katz's usual cast of presiding poetic deities, this time including the likes of Hart Crane, Cavafy, Delmore Schwartz, Poe, Dickinson, Joyce, Pound, Rilke, and Marianne Moore. David Katz is a poet whose work resides in a paradise of other poets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSAMPLE Poem: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegend Must Do\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was born on the Lower East Side of New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo shopkeepers just off the boat from Galitz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Russian Pale. My grandpa's wrapped\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a story now, in the wooliness of legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the men we have woven into\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA generation, he was drafted into the army\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf the Czar. His palooka of a sergeant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas easy game, and grandpa took a pint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf vodka out and got the sergeant drunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving along the side of a ditch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a dizzy march, the two moved on, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe officer fell in, and my grandpa deserted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto the woods. I have no idea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether any of this is true, but\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegend must do when the facts are few.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy grandpa had an accent, opened up\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tailor shop, was father to my mother\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd her sister (a Communist! \"Milk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor babies!\" she shouted for the poor).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's all I remember except for the lumpy vests, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe slight white frame, the scar of the appendectomy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe revealed to me, shaving by the frigid toilet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"They cut out half my stomach, boychick.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe smoked Phillies and died when I was eight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52468913897779,"sku":"9781962847070","price":29.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/B3s-52JTN79781962847070.webp?v=1759377327","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-biographer-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}