Reviews for Faithful Existence: Selected Essays

The average rating for Faithful Existence: Selected Essays based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-21 00:00:00 Peter Almond Recently the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Gander also published this earlier collection of essays, thought pieces and creative discussions on poets, poetry and translation. The prose, the insights and the range of reading are masterful. Elegant precise poets I hadn't heard of come alive in these pages. The commitment to art is forceful, like what holds nuclear material in atoms together.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-05-19 00:00:00 TONY FRANCIS Erudite and complicated, this book of meditations is delightfully obscure---most people won't have patience for Gander's reflections, but those who do will be rewarded. I've been forcing students to read from it for a couple years, and their reactions range from respect/awe to hatred/insults; I think of it, regarding either of those responses, as good medicine for the potentially afflicted.