Litanies Near Water Poems
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Baton Rouge
LSU Press
2008
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record Cover; Contents; I. THE SMALLEST MAN CARRIES THE CANDLE; If Silence Is Any Indication; November Consolation; The Smallest Man Carries the Candle; You Cannot Love the Wind; Report from the Compound; A Mother's Ten-Second History Lesson; Verona as the Past; After the Feast; Monk Killed by Tractor in Bid to Dodge Police; Pagan Litany; II. CONFESSIONS OF THE NATURAL WORLD; Waiting for Tassos; Primer in Black; Report from My Own Backyard; Landscape with a Very Fat Man, Seated; The Moment: Stone Fish; Confessions of the Natural World; Beetle; Storm Coming to Torcello Dogs at the Temple of the Olympian ZeusLitany of Resistance; What They Had Come For; III. METAPHOR AS PRAYER; Metaphor as Prayer; Report from the Aftermath; The Heart Is; Elegy for My Novel; Feast; Theory of an Impersonal God; Tigers; Evening; Last Days; Night in Venice: Summer Infused with Mediterranean landscapes, the poems of Litanies Near Water, Paula Closson Buck''s second collection, probe the world through language that acts sometimes like a divining rod and sometimes like a lightning rod. Elegant meditative lyrics such as ""You Cannot Love the Wind"" and ""Theory of an Impersonal God"" answer to politically alert poems like ""Monk Killed by Tractor in Bid to Dodge Police."" Ultimately, in Buck''s deft hand, the lyrical quest for understanding becomes a form of diplomacy between the physical and the metaphysical, between instances of beauty and the violence th |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (65 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0807143251 9780807143254 |