| An Explanation of America Contributor(s): Pinsky, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691013608 ISBN-13: 9780691013602 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1979 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - History |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 79083974 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.46" W x 8.5" (0.27 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From An Explanation of America: ? Inexhaustible, delicate, as if Without source or medium, daylight Undoes the mind; the infinite, Empty actual is too bright, Scattering to where the road Whispers, through a mile of woods ... Later, how quiet the house is: Dusk-like and refined, The sweet Phoebe-note Piercing from the trees; The calm globe of the morning, Things to read or to write Ranged on a table; the brain A dark, stubborn current that breathes Blood, a deaf wadding, The hands feeding it paper And sensations of wood or metal On its own terms. Trying to read I persist a while, finish the recognition By my breath of a dead giant's breath-- Stayed by the space of a rhythm, Witnessing the blue gulf of the air. |