ISBN: 9780691014814

A survivor of the Roman sack of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., an old man in his garden in upstate New York, a fourteenth-century Picard glazier, a modern city-dweller repainting his front hall--t… Plus…

A survivor of the Roman sack of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., an old man in his garden in upstate New York, a fourteenth-century Picard glazier, a modern city-dweller repainting his front hall--the speakers in these richly textured poems reflect on the culture of their own time and contemplate the enigma of home. Here Karl Kirchwey provides the reader with a synchronous vision of the ancient and the contemporary while illustrating the paradox of geographical fixity in a world of change. The poems use the formal resources of the modern syllabic and the classic hexameter, of free verse as well as the stanza forms of Herbert and Wordsworth. Their settings encompass French and Italian Switzerland, Sicily, Greece, rural New England, Manhattan, and London. Together the poems form an atlas of significant emotional range and terrestrial color. For Allo (Sculpture from the Harpy Tomb at Xanthos, now in the British Museum) It is as if the wind had flayed her woolen chiton from her, yet somehow she is clothed: neither in flesh nor stone. Has she been stripped by time, then, or the fury of her own movement? It starts up by her throat: a Y of sinuous folds descends between her breasts; then, magnified as roses are in fabric in a light summer dress, so that the lower blossoms are actually larger than those above, or as waves find their murderous amplitude through long movement at sea alone, or thought does, these too counter their direction, involving the whole body in their torque of contrary motion, so that the hem tosses in restless troughs, a single flange of vengeance floating in the way the mind does, and condemns itself in solitude. Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

ISBN: 0691014817

A survivor of the Roman sack of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., an old man in his garden in upstate New York, a fourteenth-century Picard glazier, a modern city-dweller repainting his front hall--t… Plus…

A survivor of the Roman sack of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., an old man in his garden in upstate New York, a fourteenth-century Picard glazier, a modern city-dweller repainting his front hall--the speakers in these richly textured poems reflect on the culture of their own time and contemplate the enigma of home. Here Karl Kirchwey provides the reader with a synchronous vision of the ancient and the contemporary while illustrating the paradox of geographical fixity in a world of change. The poems use the formal resources of the modern syllabic and the classic hexameter, of free verse as well as the stanza forms of Herbert and Wordsworth. Their settings encompass French and Italian Switzerland, Sicily, Greece, rural New England, Manhattan, and London. Together the poems form an atlas of significant emotional range and terrestrial color. For Allo (Sculpture from the Harpy Tomb at Xanthos, now in the British Museum) It is as if the wind had flayed her woolen chiton from her, yet somehow she is clothed: neither in flesh nor stone. Has she been stripped by time, then, or the fury of her own movement? It starts up by her throat: a Y of sinuous folds descends between her breasts; then, magnified as roses are in fabric in a light summer dress, so that the lower blossoms are actually larger than those above, or as waves find their murderous amplitude through long movement at sea alone, or thought does, these too counter their direction, involving the whole body in their torque of contrary mot literature and fiction,poetry,regional and cultural Poetry, Princeton University Press<

ISBN: 0691014817

A survivor of the Roman sack of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., an old man in his garden in upstate New York, a fourteenth-century Picard glazier, a modern city-dweller repainting his front hall--t… Plus…

A survivor of the Roman sack of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., an old man in his garden in upstate New York, a fourteenth-century Picard glazier, a modern city-dweller repainting his front hall--the speakers in these richly textured poems reflect on the culture of their own time and contemplate the enigma of home. Here Karl Kirchwey provides the reader with a synchronous vision of the ancient and the contemporary while illustrating the paradox of geographical fixity in a world of change. The poems use the formal resources of the modern syllabic and the classic hexameter, of free verse as well as the stanza forms of Herbert and Wordsworth. Their settings encompass French and Italian Switzerland, Sicily, Greece, rural New England, Manhattan, and London. Together the poems form an atlas of significant emotional range and terrestrial color. For Allo (Sculpture from the Harpy Tomb at Xanthos, now in the British Museum) It is as if the wind had flayed her woolen chiton from her, yet somehow she is clothed: neither in flesh nor stone. Has she been stripped by time, then, or the fury of her own movement? It starts up by her throat: a Y of sinuous folds descends between her breasts; then, magnified as roses are in fabric in a light summer dress, so that the lower blossoms are actually larger than those above, or as waves find their murderous amplitude through long movement at sea alone, or thought does, these too counter their direction, involving the whole literature and fiction,poetry,regional and cultural Poetry, Princeton University Press<

1990, ISBN: 9780691014814

Newport, RI. 1925. Softcover. Original wrappers, slight soiling. Creasing to some corners. Written library number and library blind stamp on the front wrapper. ; Complete issue of the &… Plus…

Newport, RI. 1925. Softcover. Original wrappers, slight soiling. Creasing to some corners. Written library number and library blind stamp on the front wrapper. ; Complete issue of the "Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society," Number Fifty-three, April, 1925. In addition to the featured paper or essay, there is some Society notes, etc. ., 1925, Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ., 1990. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st paper. 1200 shelf. Trade paperback, photo metallic wine covers, small corner crease back cover. Unread. No names, clean text. Solid. 86 pgs., Princeton Univ., 1990<

1990, ISBN: 0691014817

[EAN: 9780691014814], Near Fine, [PU: Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ], POETRY, Poetry|General, 1200 shelf. Trade paperback, photo metallic wine covers, small corner crease back cover. Unr… Plus…

[EAN: 9780691014814], Near Fine, [PU: Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ], POETRY, Poetry|General, 1200 shelf. Trade paperback, photo metallic wine covers, small corner crease back cover. Unread. No names, clean text. Solid. 86 pgs, Books<