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Tourist in Hell
Eleanor Wilner
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Paperback. Includes poems that attempt to absorb the shock of the wars and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 163.
From What It Hinges On ...a letter here, a sentence there, years of work litter the field that lies outside the town that flood or fire took back, as the great tectonic plates grind out their harmonies below the sea, and the earth turns in its restless sleep, spun by what we cannot see, the hand that is no hand, but brings us calm to think it so, and think it ours to smite our enemies, forgetting as we turn it to a fist, it is ourselves curled, blind as newborn kittens, in the palm. Eleanor Wilner's poems attempt to ... Read more
From What It Hinges On ...a letter here, a sentence there, years of work litter the field that lies outside the town that flood or fire took back, as the great tectonic plates grind out their harmonies below the sea, and the earth turns in its restless sleep, spun by what we cannot see, the hand that is no hand, but brings us calm to think it so, and think it ours to smite our enemies, forgetting as we turn it to a fist, it is ourselves curled, blind as newborn kittens, in the palm. Eleanor Wilner's poems attempt to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226900322
SKU
V9780226900322
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About Eleanor Wilner
"It is a relief to come across work in which a moral intelligence is matched by aesthetic refinement, in which the craft of the poems is equal to their concerns." - Christian Wiman, Poetry Eleanor Wilner is a MacArthur Fellow and the author of six previous collections of poetry, including Otherwise and Sarah's Choice, both published by the University of ... Read more
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