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To Keep Time
Joseph Massey
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Description for To Keep Time
Paperback. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 222.
Joseph Massey's third collection, To Keep Time, limns the microclimate of coastal Humboldt County, California. These poems live where modern life—radio static, a space heater, traffic—collides with the so-called natural world. With spare, vivid imagery, Massey builds brilliantly on concerns familiar to readers of his earlier works. Here "The near-silence / rattles me // to attention;" here the vagaries of language itself—what's been left out as much as what's been written in—penetrate the heart of these stealthy, aching poems. To Keep Time stops the world's chatter for a moment and listens to its loneliness and longing, and hears the grace ... Read more
Joseph Massey's third collection, To Keep Time, limns the microclimate of coastal Humboldt County, California. These poems live where modern life—radio static, a space heater, traffic—collides with the so-called natural world. With spare, vivid imagery, Massey builds brilliantly on concerns familiar to readers of his earlier works. Here "The near-silence / rattles me // to attention;" here the vagaries of language itself—what's been left out as much as what's been written in—penetrate the heart of these stealthy, aching poems. To Keep Time stops the world's chatter for a moment and listens to its loneliness and longing, and hears the grace ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
92
Place of Publication
Richmond, CA, United States
ISBN
9781890650971
SKU
V9781890650971
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99-1
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