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Subject(s)

• American poetry—20th century [Browse]

Series

Iowa Poetry Prize [More in this series]

Summary note

Throughout Bin Ramke's book of poems, certain elements recur insistently: birds and boyhood, betrayal and longings that careen between flesh and faith.Ramke refuses to distinguish between scientific and poetic approaches to knowing the world. In Wake, the poet does not pretend to offer wisdom but instead offers words, and the words are given as much freedom as possible. The title itself resonates with all its presumptive meanings: an alternative to dreaming, a ceremony binding the living to the dead, and the pattern left briefly in water by boats-handwriting as turb

Notes

Preliminaries omitted.

Original version

Transcribed from: Ramke, Bin Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1999 114 p. Wake: Poems By Bin Ramke.

Language note

English

Contents

• Contents; The Ruined World; Essay; A Theory of Fantasy; Chivalric; A Little Ovid Late in the Day; Livery of Seisin; Shostakovich and Kubatsky in Archangel; Mercy; Someone Whispers Below in the Garden; Sad Stories; Grass Fires; Small Noise the Weather Makes; Body Parts (1968); & the War in France; Another Lean, Unwashed Artificer; A History of His Heart; Pretty Words, Parabolas; Enter Celia, with a Writing; A Great Noise the World Makes; A History of Tenderness; For I Have Already Been Once . . .; And the Light Never Waned in the Same Way Twice; How Light Is Spent; Toying
• Toy Houses in the LandscapeCrisis; Famous Poems of the Past Explained; Testimony; Notes

Place name(s)

United States of America Iowa City.

ISBN

1-58729-305-6

OCLC

850193385

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