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Reel to Reel (Phoenix Poets)
Alan C. Shapiro
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Description for Reel to Reel (Phoenix Poets)
Paperback. Where are we going? What are we doing here? you don't ask, you don't notice the blur of stations we're racing past, the others out there watching in the dim light, baffled, who for a moment thought the train was theirs. This book offers a collection of poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 134.
Wherever My Dead Go When I'm Not Remembering Them. Not gone, not here, a fern trace in the stone of living tissue it can somehow flourish from; or the dried up channel and the absent current; or maybe it's like a subway passenger on a platform in a dim lit station late at night between trains, after the trains have stopped - ahead only the faintest rumbling of the last one disappearing, and behind the dark you're looking down for any hint of light-where is it? why won't it come? you wandering now along the yellow line, restless, not knowing ... Read more
Wherever My Dead Go When I'm Not Remembering Them. Not gone, not here, a fern trace in the stone of living tissue it can somehow flourish from; or the dried up channel and the absent current; or maybe it's like a subway passenger on a platform in a dim lit station late at night between trains, after the trains have stopped - ahead only the faintest rumbling of the last one disappearing, and behind the dark you're looking down for any hint of light-where is it? why won't it come? you wandering now along the yellow line, restless, not knowing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226110639
SKU
V9780226110639
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Ref
99-1
About Alan C. Shapiro
Alan Shapiro has published eleven books of poetry, most recently Night of the Republic, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Old War. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Reviews for Reel to Reel (Phoenix Poets)
"These meditative, syntactically supple lyrics bring a new level of abstraction and sophistication to this poet's work, marking a maturation of an already accomplished style that makes him a poet commensurate with the strange, aching, exhilarating spaces of modernity." (Mark Doty, citation for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize"