Blizzard of One: Poems - Couverture rigide

Strand

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0375401393 ISBN 13 : 9780375401398

Editeur : Random House USA Inc, 1998

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"A Piece of the Storm"

From the shadow of domes in the city of domes,

A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room

And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up

From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all

There was to it. No more than a solemn waking

To brevity, to the lifting and falling away of attention, swiftly,

A time between times, a flowerless funeral. No more than that

Except for the feeling that this piece of the storm,

Which turned into nothing before your eyes, would come back,

That someone years hence, sitting as you are now, might say:

"It's time. The air is ready. The sky has an opening."

Présentation de l'éditeur

Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of leavetaking," but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Blizzard of One is an extraordinary book--the summation of the work of a lifetime by one of our very few true masters of the art of poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House USA Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0375401393
• ISBN 13: 9780375401398
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 55
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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