I Have a Name

By David Ignatow

Book Overview

I have a Name is a vital engagement with life and an unflinching stare at death, concluding that love transcendent is a reality,

Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1997)

The wondrous subtlety of David Ignatow's art is brought to bear on the timeless themes of love and death. Intimate remembrances evince a rich life: Hebrew lessons, war, first love, friendships with Stanley Kunitz and others, his wife's death. One poem comments on another, often with wit and irony; no statement is ever final. In this way, Ignatow shows that we exist most fully in the fluidity of our perceptions and in our inability to attain a single state of mind or definition of things. I Have A Name is a vital engagement with life and an unflinching stare at death, concluding that love transcendent is a reality, embracing all, the living and the dead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819522406
• ISBN13: 9780819522405
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up