Difficult Joy - by Brian Glaser (Paperback)

About the Book

"In Brian Glaser's third collection, meditations on spirituality and art continue to permeate his work. These poems are organized around the seasons, one cycle of the four seasons and microseasons within them. Difficult Joy focuses on how our ways of relating have changed in deep and perhaps lasting ways. At the center of this collection is a translation of Hèolderlin's "Bread and Wine.""--

Book Synopsis

In Brian Glaser's third collection, meditations on spirituality and art continue to permeate his work. These poems are organized around the seasons, one cycle of the four seasons and microseasons within them. Difficult Joy focuses on how our ways of relating have changed in deep and perhaps lasting ways. At the center of this collection is a translation of Hölderlin's "Bread and Wine."

Review Quotes

"Brian Glaser's Hölderlin is perhaps the most beautifully rhythmed version of this long piece to date."

-Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation

"In Difficult Joy, difficulty means both suffering and labor; and joy, a pleasure in both language and the world. In one poem, a mapless angel searches for home, offering an apt metaphor for the entire collection. Brian Glaser forges new pathways through the dark linguistic wood to home in on the complexity, horror, and, yes, joy of the world."

-Jacob Edmond, author, A Common Strangeness and Make It the Same