Matter : poems /
Bin Ramke's poetry has always been concerned with separating the real from the wished-for or the feared. In Matter, Ramke investigates not only the physical realities of our world but the qualities that make things important to us, that give them weight. These poems, often in the voice of a chi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2004.
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| ISBN: | 9781587295195 1587295199 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; 1; The Tender Grasses of the Field; The Question Concerning Technology; Canonically Conjugate Variables; Astronomy for Beginners; 49 Views of Childhood; Variations on Lamentation; Where the Famous Wish They Had Lived; All Saints; Song of the North American Martyrs; Action Figure; How One Pictures the Angel of History; The Greek for Touch Also Meant Kindle; This World's Exuberant Surface; Narcissus Old, Anyone Young; Thou Hast Blessed the Work of His Hands; 2; Inarticulate; How Small a Virtue Was It?; Work in Silence; A Hint of Mercy in the Weeds
- Consolations of ComparisonThe Fall / The Unthinkable; Versions of Errors; Origami; On the Origin of Language; Pain Is the History of Consciousness; After Virgil; The Naming of Shadows and Colors; Reading a Line by Leyb Goldin; Thou Shalt Not Love by Ways So Dangerous; Chemical Virtue