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Blue Sandbar Moon

Blue Sandbar Moon

CHRIS AGEE

 

A decade after Next to Nothing, Chris Agee’s critically acclaimed and achingly powerful collection of poems in memory of his daughter Miriam, Blue Sandbar Moon explores with delicate precision the emotional and spiritual landscape of a life sustained in “the aftermath of aftermath.” Consisting mainly of 174 untitled, interconnected short poems, the collection evolves with technical grace and meditative clarity to present a holistic and searching vision of worlds in motion – both public and private, natural and imagined, the seen and the sensed.

$22.00

978-0-9935532-1-9 Hardback 240 pages
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With a characteristically lucent understanding of the inner architectures of memory, grief, hope, and art itself, Agee creates a mosaic of days and hours – a “micro-epic” that is at once fluently accessible and formally path-breaking. Blending the pulse of poetry with the flex and heft of prose, the result is a genre-defying work of deep feeling and distinct literary importance.

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“It is a monumental work ranging across both the European landscape and the deepest inner worlds.”
David Park, novelist

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“If poetry is meant to hit you in all your solar plexuses, then this is it. Matching craft with feeling is the challenge which all poets must meet, and this Chris Agee does with style and power. It {Blue Sandbar Moon} deserves its place as one of the most ambitious and successful long (mini) epics of our time.”
Alan Titley, novelist, poet, translator and scholar in Irish and English

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About The Author

Chris Agee was born in San Francisco and grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. After high school at Phillips Academy Andover and a year in Aix-en-Provence, France, he attended Harvard University and since graduation has lived in Ireland. His third collection of poems, Next to Nothing, was shortlisted in Britain for the 2009 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and its sequel, Blue Sandbar Moon, appeared in 2018. He is the Editor of Irish Pages, and recently edited Balkan Essays, the sixth volume of Hubert Butler’s essays.

CHRIS-AGEE

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About The Author

Chris Agee was born in San Francisco and grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. After high school at Phillips Academy Andover and a year in Aix-en-Provence, France, he attended Harvard University and since graduation has lived in Ireland. His third collection of poems, Next to Nothing, was shortlisted in Britain for the 2009 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and its sequel, Blue Sandbar Moon, appeared in 2018. He is the Editor of Irish Pages, and recently edited Balkan Essays, the sixth volume of Hubert Butler’s essays.

Weight 484 g
Dimensions 225 × 147 × 30 mm