Litanies Near Water : Poems

Infused with Mediterranean landscapes, the poems of Litanies Near Water, Paula Closson Buck''s second collection, probe the world through language that acts sometimes like a divining rod and sometimes like a lightning rod. Elegant meditative lyrics such as ""You Cannot Love the W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buck, Paula Closson
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetry.
American poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
poetry.
Poesie americaine.
Poesie > Collections.
Poesie.
Poetry as Topic
American poetry > 21st century.
Poetry > Collections.
Collections.
Poetry
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; I. THE SMALLEST MAN CARRIES THE CANDLE; If Silence Is Any Indication; November Consolation; The Smallest Man Carries the Candle; You Cannot Love the Wind; Report from the Compound; A Mother's Ten-Second History Lesson; Verona as the Past; After the Feast; Monk Killed by Tractor in Bid to Dodge Police; Pagan Litany; II. CONFESSIONS OF THE NATURAL WORLD; Waiting for Tassos; Primer in Black; Report from My Own Backyard; Landscape with a Very Fat Man, Seated; The Moment: Stone Fish; Confessions of the Natural World; Beetle; Storm Coming to Torcello.
  • Dogs at the Temple of the Olympian ZeusLitany of Resistance; What They Had Come For; III. METAPHOR AS PRAYER; Metaphor as Prayer; Report from the Aftermath; The Heart Is; Elegy for My Novel; Feast; Theory of an Impersonal God; Tigers; Evening; Last Days; Night in Venice: Summer.

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