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Hybrids of plants and of ghosts /

"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meanin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graham, Jorie, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1980.
Colección:Princeton series of contemporary poets
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; I; The Way Things Work; I Was Taught Three; Whore's Bath; Ambergris; Tennessee June; Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts; Angels for Cezanne; Cross-Stitch; Strangers; Drawing Wildflowers; II; Mother's Sewing Box; For My Father Looking for My Uncle; The Chicory Comes Out Late August in Umbria; Syntax; Tree Surgeons; Netting; Jackpot; Harvest for Bergson; Flooding; One in the Hand; An Artichoke for Montesquieu; Penmanship; To Paul Eluard; III; Framing; For Mark Rothko; The Geese; New Trees; On Why I Would Betray You; Mirrors; Mimicry
  • Self-PortraitGirl at the Piano; My Face in the Mirror Tells a Story of Delicate Ambitions; Still Life; IV; How Morning Glories Could Bloom at Dusk; In High Waters; Over and Over Stitch; The Slow Sounding and Eventual Reemergence Of; The Nature of Evidence; Mind; Now the Sturdy Wind; Lourdes: Syllables for a Friend; The Afterlife; Pearls; A Feather for Voltaire; Notes