Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus
- Sale Date
- ISBN
- 9781959030874
- Page Count
- 96
- Language
- English
- Imprint
- Tin House
Meet the Author
Raymond Antrobus
Finalist for the 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize
“Exhilarating.”―Victoria Chang, author of With My Back to the World
“Told with frankness and a masterful wielding of image, Signs, Music is so tenderly rendered that I found myself gasping.”―Shira Erlichman, author of Odes to Lithium
Acclaimed poet Raymond Antrobus returns with Signs, Music, a stunning book of poetry that captures imminent fatherhood and the arrival of a child.
Structured as a two-part sequence poem, Signs, Music explores the before and after of becoming a father with tenderness and care—the cognitive and emotional dissonances between the “hypothetical” and the “real” of fatherhood, the ways our own parents shape the parents we become, and how fraught with emotion, curiosity, and recollection this irreversible transition to fatherhood makes one’s inner landscape.
At once searching and bright, deeply rooted and buoyant, Raymond Antrobus’s Signs, Music is a moving record of the changes and challenges encompassing new parenthood and the inevitable cycles of life, death, birth, renewal, and legacy—a testament to the joy, uncertainty, and incredible love that come with bringing new life into the world.
“Exhilarating.”―Victoria Chang, author of With My Back to the World
“Told with frankness and a masterful wielding of image, Signs, Music is so tenderly rendered that I found myself gasping.”―Shira Erlichman, author of Odes to Lithium
Acclaimed poet Raymond Antrobus returns with Signs, Music, a stunning book of poetry that captures imminent fatherhood and the arrival of a child.
Structured as a two-part sequence poem, Signs, Music explores the before and after of becoming a father with tenderness and care—the cognitive and emotional dissonances between the “hypothetical” and the “real” of fatherhood, the ways our own parents shape the parents we become, and how fraught with emotion, curiosity, and recollection this irreversible transition to fatherhood makes one’s inner landscape.
At once searching and bright, deeply rooted and buoyant, Raymond Antrobus’s Signs, Music is a moving record of the changes and challenges encompassing new parenthood and the inevitable cycles of life, death, birth, renewal, and legacy—a testament to the joy, uncertainty, and incredible love that come with bringing new life into the world.
Praise for Signs, Music
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“Delicate, simple, gratifying. . . . From Oklahoma to London, Hebrew to Sanskrit, the King James Bible to William Wordsworth’s daffodil poem, the setting and context add entire dimensions to the collection…. I found myself re-reading and basking in my favorite lines.”
Associated Press -
“Tender. . . . Deeply felt.”
Publishers Weekly -
“What a beautiful poem. . . Both the title and the poem do what I think good poems do, they enact rather than describe. . . . you're in the experience of what I think of as deep connection and pleasure and the ecstatic in the bigger sense.”
Kevin Young, The New Yorker Poetry Podcast
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