| Description |
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"A New Directions paperbook original (NDP1093)"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
Descartes' lonliness -- Shipfitters -- Wash day -- A day's work -- The Caedmon room -- Winter at the seashore -- Timor Mortis, Incorporated, A switchboard memory -- City of David -- The invention of night -- The lending library -- You will be wrapped in silk -- A long romance -- You have beautiful hair, Irene -- I am that I am -- "Warble, " says the bird -- The famished dead -- Treason -- A kiss for you -- A Gust of wind -- Lost, lost -- My radiant eye -- Rain on a still pond -- Abide with me, fast falls the eventide ... -- Port Sunlight -- Vocation the third dream -- How the immense cathedral fell -- The sun does not begin the day -- At sunset -- The Black Tower -- Splendor -- Votre Altesse. |
| Summary |
"The Descartes in the title of Allen Grossman's long-awaited new book is the great figure of philosophy, but also refers to all persons insofar as we are discovering the world and must think of it on our own. Grossman's poems interrogate the one world and one life given to us, philosopher and poet alike, blending the comic and tragic."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| ISBN |
9780811217118 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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0811217116 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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