Erosion - Paperback
by Jorie Graham
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jorie GrahamSeries:Princeton Contemporary Poets #24Publish date:1983-05-21Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691014050ISBN-10:691014051UPC:9780691014050Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.47 x 6.11 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SC318AQNWK
From Erosion:
SAN SEPOLCRO
the mind is,
holy grave. It is this girl
by Piero
della Francesca, unbuttoning
her blue dress,
her mantle of weather,
to go into
labor. Come, we can go in.
It is before
the birth of god. No-one
has risen yet
to the museums, to the assembly
line bodies
and wings to the open air
market. This is
what the living do: go in.
It's a long way.
And the dress...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691014050ISBN-10:691014051UPC:9780691014050Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.47 x 6.11 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SC318AQNWK
Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.
She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Her first book, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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