| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
97 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
After long silence -- Pyracantha and plum -- Flowering vetch -- Theology -- Hope: An assay -- To judgment: An assay -- Those who cannot act -- Sheep's cheese -- Beneath the snow, the badger's steady breathing -- Sky: An assay -- Pocket of fog -- Articulation: An assay -- Translucence: An assay -- What is usual is not what is always -- Mountain -- Tears: An assay -- Poe: An assay -- Refusal -- Dog and bear -- Downed branch -- Vilnius -- Wf": An assay -- "To": An assay -- "And": An assay -- Study of melon & insect -- A man walks through his life -- A day comes -- Double -- Not only parallel lines extend to the infinit e-- I imagine myself in time -- Meeting -- Wanting more and more to live unobserved, unobserving -- Destination -- Late self-portrait by Rembrandt -- Ryoanji: An assay -- To opinion -- Woodpecker keeps returning -- "It is night. It is very dark." -- Bonsai -- Promise -- Heat of Autumn -- To wake at 3:00 -- Dog still barking at midnight -- Two washings -- Termites: An assay -- Envy: An assay -- Hesitation: An assay -- Once: an assay -- Burlap sack -- Monk stood beside a wheelbarrow -- I write these words to delay -- Seventeen pebbles -- "Ah!": An assay -- Against certainty -- Jasper, feldspar, quartzite -- Instant glimpsable only for an instant -- One sand grain among the others in winter wind -- To speech -- Bad year -- Serrano pepper -- This much is promised -- In a room with five people, six griefs -- Ask much, the voice suggested -- To gravel: An assay -- Each morning my neighbor walks out -- Between the material world and the world of feeling -- Red scarf -- Bell zygmunt -- Letter to C. -- Dead do not want us dead -- It was like this: You were happy -- Acknowledgments. |
| Summary |
Collects poetry that explores such diverse topics as global warming, sneezing, and our relationship to certainty, possibility, judgment, and grief, while reflecting on the influence of time on human life. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
0060779160 hardcover |
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9780060779160 hardcover |
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