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Author Wiman, Christian, 1966-

Title Every riven thing / Christian Wiman.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  811.54 WIMAN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  811 WIMAN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  811 WIMAN    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description 93 pages ; 22 cm
Note Poems.
Contents Dust devil -- After the diagnosis -- Five houses down -- To grasp at the mercury minnows are -- Sitting down to breakfast alone -- All good conductors -- It takes particular clicks -- The mole -- Darkcharms -- Every riven thing -- This mind of dying -- One time -- From a window -- Voice of one hand -- Country in search of a symbol -- The wind is one force -- Hermitage -- Late fragment -- Do you remember the rude nudists -- Bombs rock Cairo -- Not altogether gone -- A good landscape for grief -- Jouissance -- And I said to my soul, be loud -- Hammer is the prayer -- When the time's toxins -- Small prayer in a hard wind -- The reservoir -- For D. -- I sing insomnia -- Then I slept into a terror world -- Lord is not a word -- So much a poet he despises poetry -- Given a God more playful -- Lord of having -- It is good to sit even a rotting body -- Gone for the day, she is the day.
Summary A collection of poems explores both sorrow and joy, presenting an optimistic celebration of life and love, while acknowledging man's ultimate mortality.
Subject Poetry.
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
ISBN 9780374150365 (hc ; alk. paper)
0374150362 (hc ; alk. paper)
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