IFLIFE

By Bob Perelman

POETRY

134 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.05)

Publication Date: March 2007

ISBN 9781931824217

Rights: WOR

Roof Books (Mar 2007)

Price:	$20.00

Overview

?IFLIFE presents some of the wittiest, politically prescient—and best—American poems of this new century. The scope of the collection is prodigious, from the war in Iraq to domestic life, from the state of literary theory to Greek myth, from Hegel and Freud to parents and babies. And guiding us through the torrent of cultural signs raining down on us as if with the wrath of God is one of the most reliable voices in recent poetry. Bob Perelman, who is sardonic and wise, makes the world more apprehendable, if not a better place, with each passing poem.—Charles Bernstein

Reviews

Influenced by the work of Marcel Proust and Ezra Pound, Perelman’s poems disrupt sense and syntax as they search to connect body and language amid layers of commercialization, violence, and literary memory. In a 2007 review of IFLIFE, poet and critic Ron Silliman said it “at first appears to be that straightforward thing, a collection of poems, but when examined more closely reveals layers of connection from one poem to the next until a close reader becomes dizzy with the vertical dimensions that can lurk behind the simplest word.”—Poetry Foundation

Author Biography

Bob Perelman has written 16 books of poetry, including Ten to One: Selected Poems, The Future of Memory, and Playing Bodies, a painting/poem collaboration with Francie Shaw. His critical books are The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein and Zukofsky and The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History. He has edited two collections of poets’ talks: Hills Talks and Writing/Talks. He is Professor of English Emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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