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An edition of Granted (2003)

Granted

"Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love -- particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness and the eros of wakeful existence, these poems search for relationships with self, others, the world and God that are authentic -- however quirky or strange"--Publisher's description.

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Publisher
Alice James Books
Language
English
Pages
60

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Granted
2003, Alice James Books
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Edition Notes

Published in
Farmington, USA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.6
Library of Congress
PS3619.Z93 G73 2003, PS3619.Z93G73 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
60 p. ;
Number of pages
60

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3557177M
ISBN 10
1882295374
LCCN
2002015865
OCLC/WorldCat
50722370
Library Thing
151044
Goodreads
1200777

Work Description

“. . .with her intelligence and understated grace, Szybist may become one of the best-known writers of her generation. In Granted, she explores a timeless theme—spiritual and romantic longing. In page after page, she wrestles with faith and hope, struggling to find peace by finding freedom from desire. In the process, she lures readers into a hidden place somewhere between intellect and silence.”
The Christian Science Monitor

“. . .Mary Szybist’s most gorgeous stylistic accomplishment may be her quietest, the enactment of an unaffected aesthetic of modesty.”
American Book Review

“. . .it is these small passages, these arrivals, which detail the inaccurate promises and chosen solitudes that give Granted its often unsettling brilliance.”
New Orleans Review

“There is a liminal quality to the poems that make up Mary Szybist’s first book, Granted. They hover at the threshold of desire, moving back and forth between both spiritual and romantic ardor, between what has been granted and what has been taken for granted within the confines of love and faith. Tethered at the lip of “impossible longings,” Szybist encounters concurrent moments of ecstasy, sensuality, and cynicism in her relationships with the self, others, the world, and God.”
Electronic Poetry Review

“This work is ruminative, speculative, and deeply felt….”
Rain Taxi

“. . .the best of these 37 poems express an almost intimate relationship between the poet and the sacred….[Szybist] writes from her own perspective and that of Jesus Christ; his mother, Mary; and the Archangel Gabriel, making the book resemble a polyphonic hymn. Using fresh metaphors…Szybist examines spiritual states from longing to abandonment to ecstasy.”
Library Journal

“…we see that it is her being, her soul, that flutters so desperately within, just as she is the thing beating its wings in the mouth of the world, of God—which may be a fair description of the poetic voice itself, or at least of Szybist’s, no less iridescent for its fragility.”
The Boston Phoenix

“Mary Szybist’s poems are about religious and sexual longing and about suspicion of religious and sexual longing. They exist in, or move toward, the negative spaces, the luminous, maddening almost presences the objects of our deepest desires inhabit. She has a gift for music, a gift for aphorism, a gift for being haunted. This is serious work, so it is occasionally funny and sometimes strange and often beautiful. ‘Original research in language,’ Ezra Pound said the real thing was. This is it.”
—Robert Hass

“Mary Szybist’s great poetic gifts confront the limits of human compassion, delving into some of its agonized consequences. Her work’s ambition is the creation of a free human in the midst of the seemingly endless tetherings of desire. Great spiritual courage is sometimes almost inaudible. When one leans in to listen, it almost shocking to hear this gorgeous soul sing.
—Jorie Graham

“This is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition—to overcome by the quietest of means.”
—Donald Justice

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