{"product_id":"the-mansions-paperback","title":"The Mansions - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Tobin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning poet Daniel Tobin comes \u003ci\u003eThe Mansions\u003c\/i\u003e, an epic trilogy of book-length poems which examines exemplary 20th-Century figures Georges Lemaître, Simone Weil, and Teilhard de Chardin, all at the crossroads of science, history, and religion. Capacious in their philosophical explorations, immaculate in their form, stirring in their alchemy of faith and empiricism, each complete section works both autonomously and as part of the whole, building a house that contains many mansions, simulating the dynamic enormity of creation itself -- always already entire and yet unfinished, borderless, infinite. Immersed in a time when cataclysmic geopolitical events coincided with revolutionary scientific progress, \u003ci\u003eThe Mansions\u003c\/i\u003e charts a Dantean journey as it confronts the exigencies and contingencies which define modernity: history, religion, our planet's fate, and the purpose of humankind. A fractal symphony of voices, Tobin's tripartite collection represents a staggering literary achievement -- a lyric narrative that can hold the totality of the divine and of godlessness, that harmonizes time as change and as eternity, that sees \"pendant grapes\" as \"embodied wine.\" Its music is the harvest \"cutting free the perfectly nurtured bruise-colored fruit, hour \/ by hour,\" and its wisdom embraces the transience of all things as well as the transfiguration of the self, that everlasting impermanence: \"'I see the landscape as it is when I'm not there.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Tobin is the author of nine books of poems, \u003ci\u003eWhere the World Is Made\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDouble Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Narrows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSecond Things\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBelated Heavens\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Net\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrom Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlood Labors\u003c\/i\u003e, which the\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e named one of the Best Poetry Books of the year. He is the author of the critical studies \u003ci\u003eAwake in America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePassage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOn Serious Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLight in Hand: Selected Early Poems of Lola Ridge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoet's Work\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoet's Play: Essays on the Practice and the Arts \u003c\/i\u003e(with Pimone Triplett), and \u003ci\u003eTo the Many: Collected Early Works of Lola Ridge\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his awards are the \"The Discovery\/The Nation Award,\" The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, the Julia Ward Howe Prize, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Emerson College in Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 8.82 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725896814655,"sku":"9781954245600","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/24bb68951aaf9a5adf3f9782383b2221.webp?v=1765108397","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-mansions-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}