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The collection culminates in the elegies written to a world in which culture fragments; in which the beasts of burden - the horses, the migrant workers - are worked toward death; a world in which "Love's an immigrant, it shows itself in its work./ It works for almost nothing"; a world...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levis, Larry
Other Authors: Levine, Philip, 1928-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Poesie americaine > 20e siecle.
American poetry > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Philip Levine
  • The Two Trees
  • In 1967
  • The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.
  • Anastasia & Sandman
  • Photograph: Migrant Worker, Parlier, California, 1967
  • Shiloh
  • The Poem Returning as an Invisible Wren to the World
  • The Thief in the Painting
  • Boy in Video Arcade
  • The Cook Grew Lost in his Village, the Village in the Endless Shuffling of Their Cards
  • The Smell of the Sea
  • Elegy with a Petty Thief in the Rigging
  • Elegy for Whatever Had a Pattern in It
  • Elegy with the Sprawl of a Wave Inside It
  • Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage
  • Elegy with a Bridle in Its Hand
  • Elegy for Poe with the Music of a Carnival Inside It
  • Elegy with an Angel at Its Gate
  • Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It.

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