| Description |
65 pages ; 23 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
"A Mariner original." |
| Contents |
Portofino -- The clerk's tale -- Chiaroscuro -- A bestiary -- Tonight -- Then -- Chrysanthemums -- Autumn song -- Midnight -- Winter scene -- Diminuendo -- Ghazals for spring -- Cape Cod -- Ponies -- Triptych -- Etude -- Florida ghazals -- Interior -- Addresses -- Interlude -- Morbidezza. |
| Summary |
The Clerk's Tale pays homage not only to Chaucer but to the clerks' brotherhood of service in the mall, where "the light is bright and artificial, / yet not dissimilar to that found in a Gothic cathedral." The fifty poems in this book are exquisitely restrained, shot though with a longing for permanence, from the quasi-monastic life of two salesmen at Brooks Brothers to the poignant lingering light of a Miami dusk to the weight of geography on an empty Minnesota farm.--From publisher description. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
0618422544 |
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9780618422548 |
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