02446nam 2200637 a 450 991045418800332120200520144314.01-281-96586-397866119658600-226-49272-910.7208/9780226492728(CKB)1000000000577888(EBL)408245(OCoLC)476228179(SSID)ssj0000141205(PQKBManifestationID)11157758(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141205(PQKBWorkID)10056962(PQKB)10626299(MiAaPQ)EBC408245(DE-B1597)524975(OCoLC)1058264034(DE-B1597)9780226492728(Au-PeEL)EBL408245(CaPaEBR)ebr10266043(CaONFJC)MIL196586(EXLCZ)99100000000057788820060323d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDraft of a letter[electronic resource] /James LongenbachChicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (82 p.)Phoenix poetsDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-49268-0 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 -- 2 -- NoteFrom Second Draft:. What other people learn. From birth, . Betrayal, . I learned late. My soul perched. On an olive branch. Combing itself, . Waving its plumes. I said. Being mortal, . I aspire to. Mortal things. I need you, . Said my soul, . If you?re telling the truth. Draft of a Letter is a book about belief?not belief in the unknowable but belief in what seems bewilderingly plain. Pondering the bodies we inhabit, the words we speak, these poems discover infinitude in the most familiar places. The revelation is disorienting and, as a result, these poems talk to themselves, revise themselves, fash.Phoenix poets.PoetryPOETRY / GeneralbisacshElectronic books.Poetry.POETRY / General.813/.54Longenbach James681887MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454188003321Draft of a letter2008814UNINA