Elegy /
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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
1997.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.