1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005433050203316

Autore

RUBBOLI, Massimo

Titolo

Il Canada : un federalismo imperfetto (1864 - 1990) / Massimo Rubboli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : Giunti, 1992

ISBN

88-09-20242-2

Descrizione fisica

188 p. ; 20 cm

Collana

Americana

Disciplina

971

Soggetti

Storia - Canada

Collocazione

900 971 RUB

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451790203321

Autore

Glazer Michè€le <1958->

Titolo

Aggregate of disturbances [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / by Michele Glazer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2004

ISBN

1-58729-479-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (69 p.)

Collana

The Iowa poetry prize

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

American poetry - 21st century

American literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 2 Blinds & a Bittern; Part 1; Wherein space is constructed that



matter may reside in . . .; Matter; A Small Infidelity; Firefly; box; On So; Part 2; Translucencies, her death; Part 3; Letter; Conjunctions; Drive; Ad Infinitum; Real Life #11: Hummingbird; John Is in the Next Room; Inscape; Part 4; Echo to Narcissus; Real Life #14: Vagaries; Woman Sitting for a Portrait at a Warehouse Sale; Sonnet; The Mathematics of Fire; Feathers; Early Romance: Japanese Garden (in the heart of the city); The sculptor muses on his black-billed magpie; Valediction; Fragment's Song; Moon Casings

Part 5Map; Historic House, Astoria; Happy; The Fecundity; Home; The Infinite Imperative; Lament; Home Is a Stone House

Sommario/riassunto

In Aggregate of Disturbances, Michele Glazer confronts the  slipperiness of language and perception as she probes natural  processes-the lives of insects, the uncertainty of love, and the deaths  of human beings. Nature's beauty interests Glazer less than the fact  that it is chaotic, amoral, redundant, charming, and indifferent to  human concern-qualities that are, in these poems, turned into another  kind of beauty. "The stalk was knocked flat &the allium's great  lavender sphere / kissed the dirt &in the aftermath the pendulous  blossomed / tip bobbed like a wand madly attemp