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A draft of light : poems / John Hollander.
Author
Hollander, John
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Description
viii, 109 p. ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS3515.O3485 D73 2008
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Special Collections - Leonard Milberg Coll. of American Poetry
2008-1499N
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Poetry
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Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry
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American poetry
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Summary note
In all of the poems Hollander illuminates the fluid nature of physical and emotional experience, the connections between the simple things we encounter every day and the ways in which the meaning we attribute to them shapes our lives. Like the harmonious coming together of bandstand instruments on a summer afternoon, he writes, most of what we come to know in the world is "A dying moment / Of lastingness thenceforth / Ever not to be." Throughout this thought-provoking collection, Hollander reveals the ways in which we are constantly creating unique worlds of our own, "a draft of light" of our own making, and how these worlds, in turn, continually shape our most basic identities and truest selves. -- Publisher's website.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 109).
Contents
Hauntings
The Outcasts
A Ghost Story
Ghosts
The Sparklers
Glimpse of a Silence
Jane
What's on the Wall
Very Early
Traces
Out of Sight, Still in Mind
Undecipherable Ms. Found in a Time Capsule
Policing the Yard
Tales and Fables
Monday Morning
A Ballad Romantically Restored
A Draft of Light
Setting Out for the Inner as the Outer Sets In
Steep Declension
Attic Nights
Being Stung by a Bee on the Lexington Avenue Local
Stationary Bicycle
When We Went Up
Dr. Johnson's Fable
Typing Lesson: A Little Fable
Getting It Right
From the Notes of a Traveler
Fiddling Around
Emeritus Faculties
Fiddle-Faddle
For "Fiddle-De-Dee."
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Source acquisition
ExRML copy is gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of Richard M. Ludwig.
ISBN
9780307269119
0307269116
LCCN
2008004751
OCLC
176951822
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