Ocean Avenue / Malena Mörling ; foreword by Philip Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mörling, Malena, 1965-

Series:

New Issues Press poetry series

The New Issues Press poetry series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

75 pages : portrait ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo, Mich. : New Issues Press, 1999.

Summary:

"In the shape of a human body/I am visiting the earth; /the trees visit/in the shapes of trees". Thus begins Ocean Avenue's opening poem as Malena Morling examines the givens of our daily lives and discovers them to be more mysterious than we had supposed. The poet's sense of wonder is contagious whether she views the world from her seat on a train, from the window of her apartment, or from the streets of the city. Through a subtle, mediated surrealism, Morling reins in the urban landscapes of New York, drawing the reader into her meditations on the temporal and the spatial, on language itself.

ISBN:

0932826709

0932826687

OCLC:

41964996