The poetry of Spending the Winter is musical and structured,
whimsical and piercing, begging to be read aloud when one is not
laughing or arrested by an image that hooks the heart. "Poems so
severely beautiful that they become unforgettable after one
reading," writes one poet. "A throwback to a time when lovers of
poetry...looked for poetry of depth, wit, and craft from the likes
of Auden and Larkin," adds another. With sections of comedy that
show his wit, translations that echo his vast reading, and
formalist poetry that reveal his craft, Bottum aims, in the way few
poets these days do, at memorable lines and heart-stopping images
as he seeks the deep stuff of human experience: God and birth and
death-the beautiful and terrifying finitude of life. "We do with
words what little words can do," he writes. But in Spending the
Winter, Joseph Bottum shows that words can do far more than a
little. "Poems so severely beautiful that they become unforgettable
after one reading. . . . If you're a reader who loves poetry
whatever mood it's in, just open Spending the Winter anywhere to
find poems that hurt, enlighten, and delight." -Rhina P. Espaillat,
author of Rehearsing Absence and winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize
"Joseph Bottum is a brilliant formalist, and to read him is to
enter the world of the tried-and-true classics, all achieved with
an amazingly contemporary ring. His Spending the Winter is a
delight. Here is a poetry of elegy, humor, wit, political savvy,
and vast learning." -Paul Mariani, author The Great Wheel and
winner of the John Ciardi Award "Joseph Bottum's Spending the
Winter is a throwback to a time when lovers of poetry outside the
literary establishment looked for poetry of depth, wit, and craft
from the likes of Auden and Larkin. This is poetry from another
age-an age when we expected intellectual, religious, and literary
significance from our verse." -A.M. Juster, author of Wonder and
Wrath and winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
"Spending the Winter is a word-lover's dream: Joseph Bottum's poems
pierce, probe, dazzle, and delight. They will open the eyes of your
soul." -Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well "When
reading Spending the Winter, I recalled C.S. Lewis's description of
joy as a wanting for something that is beyond this world. There's a
sense in these poems that things around us are fleeting, yet for
that reason, the poems ask us to pay all the more attention."
-Jessica Hooten Wilson, author of Giving the Devil his Due
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