Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
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Archibald MacLeish
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Ballooning (spider)
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Building material
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Chicory
Cross-stitch
Electricity
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Finding
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fruit tree
Grazing
Handkerchief
Hydrangea
Indication (medicine)
Ingot
Kudzu
Lazy Susan
Mainsail
Mimicry
Montesquieu
Moth trap
Odor
Onion
Paper lantern
Paul Eluard
Penguin Classics
Persian red
Pin
Pincushion
Plumage
Poet
Poetry
R. J. Hollingdale
Randomness
Robert Motherwell
Rosemary
Shading
Shuttlecock
Skirt
Soil
Summer squash
Tamarind
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thyme
Tobacco
Trawling
Underpinning
Water lily
Weather
Wrinkle
Product details
- ISBN 9780691013350
- Weight: 113g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 1980
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. Hence, what she sees reminds her of what is missing, and what she knows suggests what she cannot. From any event, she arcs bravely into the farthest reaches of mind. Fast readers will have trouble, but so what. To the good reader afraid of complexity, I would offer the clear trust that must bond us to such signal poems as (simply to cite three appearing in a row) "Mother's Sewing Box," "For My Father Looking for My Uncle," and "The Chicory Comes Out Late August in Umbria." Finally, the poet's words again: "...you get / just what you want" and (just before that), "Just as / from time to time / we need to seize again / the whole language / in search of / better desires."--Marvin Bell
