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The Empty Loom: Poems
Robert Gibb
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Paperback. Num Pages: 73 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
“One of the best poets now writing in America.” —Notre Dame Review “The strength of American writing today is in such good work.” —Guy Davenport, author of The Geography of the Imagination The poems in The Empty Loom weave together a figure—lover, wife, mother, muse—which takes shape before us, fully present in what Samuel Beckett calls “the time of the body.” Set firmly within the resonance of the natural world and glimpsed in paintings, fabrics, snatches of song, the poems revolve around her, fulfilling their “injunction to savor / The folds of light which fall / On the perishable world.” ... Read more
“One of the best poets now writing in America.” —Notre Dame Review “The strength of American writing today is in such good work.” —Guy Davenport, author of The Geography of the Imagination The poems in The Empty Loom weave together a figure—lover, wife, mother, muse—which takes shape before us, fully present in what Samuel Beckett calls “the time of the body.” Set firmly within the resonance of the natural world and glimpsed in paintings, fabrics, snatches of song, the poems revolve around her, fulfilling their “injunction to savor / The folds of light which fall / On the perishable world.” ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
69
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557289902
SKU
V9781557289902
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99-15
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