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Drift: Poems By Mary Kinzie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kinzie, Mary
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Poetry, Modern--20th century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
- Summary:
- "The world is touched and stands forth," writes Mary Kinzie in this book of seductive poetic experiment. In lines by turns fragmented and reflective, she shatters and reassembles such curiosities as an engraving by Albrecht Durer and the portrait of a notorious suicide whose children develop a secret telepathy. In one of her many powerful longer pieces, she collects glittering shards from myriad versions of the Cinderella story: Was the young girl running out of it because --recall the blood within the shoe?-- it hurt her? Kinzie's verse moves mysteriously between folk-lore and urban devastation, between white magic and the concoction of mood drugs in the modern laboratory. In each poem, she draws our attention to the chinks of light in the dark narratives that surround us, in a language animated by her sympathy and deep moral intelligence.
- Contents:
- Hour on hour
- Farm
- Ropework
- Poet on small hillside
- Silverprint
- Offoco
- Dawn swim
- Air shaft
- Firebrat
- Theine
- Midwinter
- Close path
- Evening at morning
- Book of tears
- Blue iris
- Moment, stay
- Acting to death
- Ladder to sky
- The figure and her daughter
- Flederzeug
- Secondary Character
- La Nausʹee
- Flame lounge: the night behind the day
- Hornbeam
- Toxic songs
- The star lantern
- Drift
- After frost at midnight
- Zeno at zero
- The Harriers
- Looking in at night
- Objet.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- ISBN:
- 0-307-52216-4
- OCLC:
- 869486136
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