Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Princeton University Press
1980
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| Beschreibung: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; I; The Way Things Work; I Was Taught Three; Whore's Bath; Ambergris; Tennessee June; Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts; Angels for Cezanne; Cross-Stitch; Strangers; Drawing Wildflowers; II; Mother's Sewing Box; For My Father Looking for My Uncle; The Chicory Comes Out Late August in Umbria; Syntax; Tree Surgeons; Netting; Jackpot; Harvest for Bergson; Flooding; One in the Hand; An Artichoke for Montesquieu; Penmanship; To Paul Eluard; III; Framing; For Mark Rothko; The Geese; New Trees; On Why I Would Betray You; Mirrors; Mimicry Self-PortraitGirl at the Piano; My Face in the Mirror Tells a Story of Delicate Ambitions; Still Life; IV; How Morning Glories Could Bloom at Dusk; In High Waters; Over and Over Stitch; The Slow Sounding and Eventual Reemergence Of; The Nature of Evidence; Mind; Now the Sturdy Wind; Lourdes: Syllables for a Friend; The Afterlife; Pearls; A Feather for Voltaire; Notes "How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. Hence, what she sees reminds her of what is missing, and what she knows suggests what she cannot. From any event, she arcs bravely into the farthest reaches of mind. Fast readers will have trouble, but so what. To the good reader afraid of complexity, I would offer the clear trust that must bond u |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (80 pages) |
| ISBN: | 140083144X 9781400831449 |