| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 352 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
This book includes work from the author's first five books--Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under Wood, and Time and Materials--as well as a substantial gathering of new poems, including a suite of elegies, a series of poems in the form of notebook musings on the nature of storytelling, a suite of summer lyrics, and two experiments in pure narrative that meditate on personal relations in a violent world and read like small, luminous novellas.--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
July notebook: The birds -- August notebook: A Death -- Variations on a passage in Edward abbey -- The bus to Baekdam Temple -- Song of the border guard -- September notebook: Stories -- Some of David's story -- Snowy egret -- The red chinese dragon and the shadows on her body in the moonlight -- from Field Guide -- from Praise -- from Human Wishes -- from Sun Under Wood -- from Time And Materials. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
|
| Subject |
American poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780061923821 hardback |
|
0061923826 hardback |
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