02286nam 2200589 a 450 991081729120332120200520144314.01-281-96586-397866119658600-226-49272-910.7208/9780226492728(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 /James Longenbach1st ed.Chicago 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.813/.54Longenbach James681887MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817291203321Draft of a letter4091992UNINA