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12%OFFElton Glaser - The Law of Falling Bodies: Poems - 9781557289964 - V9781557289964
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The Law of Falling Bodies: Poems

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Description for The Law of Falling Bodies: Poems Paperback. Num Pages: 87 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 159.
The hard centre of The Law of Falling Bodies bears down on the twin enmities of pain and loss. But the book ranges over a broad field, with poems covering everything from the inundations of summer rain (""It's like living in the spit valve of a big trombone"") to a lovesick drunk listening to Patsy Cline (""My drink's on the rocks, and I am, too."") Glaser begins with the quirks and revelations of nature, shifts to those difficult adjustments we make as the body breaks down, modulates to a series of scenes imbued with music, and ends on an elegiac ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
87
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557289964
SKU
V9781557289964
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About Elton Glaser
Elton Glaser is the author of seven other poetry collections: Relics, Tropical Depressions, Color Photographs of the Ruins, Winter Amnesties, Pelican Tracks, Here and Hereafter, and Translations from the Flesh. His poems have appeared in the 1995, 1997, and 2000 editions of The Best American Poetry. Among Glaser’s awards are two fellowships from the NEA, seven fellowships from the Ohio ... Read more

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