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If Men, Then: Poems Hardcover – February 11, 2020

by Eliza Griswold (Author)
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A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity

If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold’s language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world’s fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named “I”―a soul attempting to wrestle with itself in the face of an unfolding tragedy.

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  1. Print length
    96 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  4. Publication date
    February 11, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    5.61 x 0.39 x 8.58 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0374280770
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0374280772
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"Griswold has taken the Whitmanesque 'I'―'I' as everyone―and made it unmistakably singular . . . Though the sequence nods to the surreal and the psychological―Rimbaud’s 'Je est un autre'―there are also echoes of John Berryman and Sylvia Plath, poets closer to home whose self-awareness was enacted on the page in the form of characters, masks, new selves . . . wry and intimate, sophisticated and all [Griswold's] own―imagining the adventure that is being." ―Kevin Young, The New Yorker

"This second poetry collection from Griswold is profoundly of its moment (just look at the CBD oil references), but its language feels somehow eternal." ―Emma Specter, Vogue

"[Griswold] writes poems so emotionally charged they seem on the verge of spilling over . . . palpable and provocative poems that can be appreciated by broad audience." ―Karla Huston, Library Journal

About the Author

Eliza Griswold, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of a collection of poems, Wideawake Field (FSG, 2007) and a nonfiction book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (FSG, 2010), a New York Times bestseller that was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. She has worked with Seamus Murphy in Africa and Asia for more than a decade. She lives in New York City.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 11, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374280770
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374280772
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.61 x 0.39 x 8.58 inches
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Bruce Craven
5.0 out of 5 stars These poems matter!
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2020
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A quick scan of the titles of these poems, from the ominous first title "Prelude to a Massacre" to the possibly hopeful last "Toward a New Year", preceded by titles such as "Ode to a Dead Journalist" & "What If the Apocalypse Were Sudden" suggests to the reader that things out in the world are not be okay. The globe was in various stages of lock-down when I bought this collection this summer. Griswold's hard-earned experience and honest, shimmering description of the tension between the risen ugliness of humanity and something gentle, offers, wisdom. Her eyes are brave.
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FunnieFarmer
1.0 out of 5 stars Gutted
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 24, 2022
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Absolutely gutted, received this brand new item to fined the cover has been ripped and sellotaped together. No choice but to wrap it for my daughter as it Christmas Eve
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1.0 out of 5 stars Gutted
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 24, 2022
Absolutely gutted, received this brand new item to fined the cover has been ripped and sellotaped together. No choice but to wrap it for my daughter as it Christmas Eve
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5.0 out of 5 stars Subtle, thoughtful poetry
Reviewed in Germany on July 2, 2020
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I really loved the book - poems are gentle, yet thought-provoking, the language beautiful, subtle.
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