A draft of light : poems / John Hollander.

Author
Hollander, John [Browse]
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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      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."
      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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