Yellow stars and ice /
At the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were surprised by a constellation of drought or endless winter. The wolves walked into the snow, like men who have given up living without love; cows would no longe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1981.
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Colección: | Princeton series of contemporary poets.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- My Ear to the Chest of the World
- 1. from the throw of hours
- Every True Miracle
- The Long Boats of the Afternoon
- At Six
- Ornament: The Towns of Sleep
- In the Exact Middle of the Night
- The Black Tulips
- 2. the faces in the trees
- The Delta Parade
- Letter Full of Blue Dresses
- The Windmills
- In the Fields
- The way the milkweed pods
- The Drowned
- The Miners of Delta
- 3. in the storefronts
- My City Knows How to Carry the Sky
- Terror
- Neighbors
- Things Get Harder
- How the River Climbed Into this Poem
- The White Houses
- The Doves Are Swallowing Wind
- 4. the streets confuse themselves with rivers once
- Baltimore
- Two Allusions to the House of Walt Whitman
- The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden
- Take Today
- How Long Does It Take
- Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals
- 5. a window flies open
- The Summons
- Wish you were here
- It's All You Said It Would Be and More
- If I'm Homesick
- The Souvenirs
- Meaning to Drop You a Line
- Yellow Stars and Ice
- The Carnival at the End of the Parade
- 6. once a starling hits the glass
- The Dedication of Sleep