Erosion (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 24) - Hardcover

Graham, Jorie

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ISBN 10: 0691065705 ISBN 13: 9780691065700

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1983

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"The attempt to find all the stops, to range through the gamut of possibility, makes Ms. Graham a poet of landscape and memory as well as a poet of art."--The New York Times Book Review

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From Erosion:

SAN SEPOLCRO
Jorie Graham

. . . . How clean

the mind is,

holy grave. It is this girl

by Piero

della Francesca, unbuttoning

her blue dress,

her mantle of weather,

to go into

labor. Come, we can go in.

It is before

the birth of god. No-one

has risen yet

to the museums, to the assembly

line bodies

and wings to the open air

market. This is

what the living do: go in.

It's a long way.

And the dress keeps opening

from eternity

to privacy, quickening.

Inside, at the heart,

is tragedy, the present moment

forever stillborn,

but going in, each breath

is a button

coming undone, something terribly

nimble-fingered

finding all of the stops.

Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Her first book, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0691065705
• ISBN 13: 9780691065700
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96