| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 79 p. ; 22 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Contents |
Woman on Twenty-Second Eating Berries -- White Bible -- Reading with the Poets -- Will Work for Food -- Snipers -- Souls of Suicides as Birds -- Conan Doyle's Copper Beeches -- Humility Elm -- For My Father, Dead at Fifty-Six, On My Fifty-Sixth Birthday -- Dove -- Dwarf with Violin, Government Center Station -- Alms -- Keats in Burns Country -- Shadower -- Panegyric for Gee -- One-Legged Wooden Redwing -- The Art of Poetry -- Doves in January -- For Judith on Valentine's Day -- In Answer to Amy's Question What's a Pickerel -- State Birds -- White Oaks Ascending -- "Woman Drowns after Slipping from Floating Refrigerator" -- Lazarus at Dawn -- The Last Parent -- Drunks -- The Marriage in the Trees -- Nobody Sleeps. |
| Summary |
Melodic and firmly rooted in nature, Stanley Plumly's The Marriage in the Trees deepens and sharpens the themes of his critically acclaimed Boy on the Step. In this, his seventh collection, Plumly renders the worlds of past and present with a taxonomist's care - what Italo Calvino called exactitude. He moves from the pastoral to the familial, from the landscapes of Turner and Constable to blasted industrial sites, from defining moments of acute personal loss - particularly the death of his parents - to meditations on the death of Keats and evocations of Whitman tending the wounded on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War. |
| ISBN |
0880014873 |
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9780880014878 |
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0880015462 |
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9780880015462 |
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