River Twice (eBook)

Poems

Kathleen Graber (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
112 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19429-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardTaking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. The world presented in these poems is a fluid one in which so much-including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself-seems protean, as the speaker's previously familiar understanding of the self and the larger systems around it gives way. Kathleen Graber's poems wander widely, from the epistolary to the essayistic, shuffling the remarkable and unremarkable flotsam of contemporary life. One thought, one memory, one bit of news flows into the next. Yet, in a century devoted to exponentially increasing speed, The River Twice unfolds at the slow pace of a river bend. While the warm light of ideas and things flashes upon the surface, that which endures remains elusive-something glimpsed only for an instant before it is gone.

Autor

Kathleen Graber is the author of two previous collections of poetry, The Eternal City (Princeton), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Correspondence. She is associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and lives in Powhatan, Virginia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: action figure • acupuncture • aphid • arborist • Astronomer • augury • bangle • baseball cap • Big Data • black vulture • broth • brown rat • canada goose • Cave Painting • Closed captioning • columbarium • Comic Book • Cosmic microwave background • countertop • crop circle • Desk • Dexter Gordon • Donati (crater) • duct tape • Eastern Bluebird • Egret • emoji • Feral horse • Fertilizer • Flight Attendant • forehead • forsythia • Freckle • French drain • glove • Guy-wire • Hashtag • hazelnut • house mouse • Indigo bunting • ingredient • Instagram • leash • Lintel • Literature • Loren Eiseley • Lunch • Matthew Zapruder • Meadow jumping mouse • meal • Middle Ear • month • My Bed • Obsidian • Paperback • Philippe Petit • Pipe Organ • Planck (spacecraft) • Poetry • ponytail • radish • rhetoric • Robinson Jeffers • Rock dove • saucer • Sea spray • Selfie • shackle • simulacrum • Sleeve • Sluice • Snapchat • sock • sound effect • Soundscape • Statue • Sternum • Sty • Suffering • Sump pump • supermarket • suspension bridge • Symptom • Technology • Thermostat • The Tumor • Timer • tire • tree stand • Tuberculosis • Twitter • University of Milan • Vegetable • viridiana • Visual rhetoric • Vitamin • Walker Percy • washing machine • Woody Guthrie • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19429-7 / 0691194297
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19429-5 / 9780691194295