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Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

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How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea, writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. Hence, what she sees reminds her of what is missing, and what she knows suggests what she cannot. From any event, she arcs bravely into the farthest reaches of mind. Fast readers will have trouble, but so what. To the good reader afraid of complexity, I would offer the clear trust that must bond us to such signal poems as Mother's Sewing Box, For My Father Looking for My Uncle, and The Chicory Comes Out Late August in Umbria. Finally, the poet's words again: . . . you get / just what you want and , Just as / from time to time / we need to seize again / the whole language / in search of / better desires.--Marvin Bell

Language: English

Pages: 69

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release: June 21, 1980

ISBN: 0691013357

ISBN 13: 9780691013350

Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

3.9/5 ( ratings)

How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea, writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. Hence, what she sees reminds her of what is missing, and what she knows suggests what she cannot. From any event, she arcs bravely into the farthest reaches of mind. Fast readers will have trouble, but so what. To the good reader afraid of complexity, I would offer the clear trust that must bond us to such signal poems as Mother's Sewing Box, For My Father Looking for My Uncle, and The Chicory Comes Out Late August in Umbria. Finally, the poet's words again: . . . you get / just what you want and , Just as / from time to time / we need to seize again / the whole language / in search of / better desires.--Marvin Bell

Language: English

Pages: 69

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release: June 21, 1980

ISBN: 0691013357

ISBN 13: 9780691013350

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