Matter: Poems By Bin Ramke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramke, Bin

Series:

Kuhl House poets.

Kuhl House poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 child, are full of yearning and anguish but also an appreciation for the enhanced perceptions and small pleasures to be found among the sadness. "All lost things have the same voice," he says, and this universal voice reminds us of home and family and the simple connections of ordinary life-the

Contents:

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

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9781587295195

1587295199

OCLC:

646887692