Ark [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / by John Isles

• Autore: Isles John
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa City, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (69 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.6; 811/.6
• Soggetto topico: American poetry; American literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I; To a Pretending Leaf; Static Report; Carrion Days; Sirens; Out of the Past; Elegy for the Present Moment; Small Traveling Islands; General Trees; Part II; Covenant; West of Here, North of True; The Evangelist of Fish; City upon a Hill; Saint in the Wilderness; New World Narratives; The Old Hunting Grounds; The Night-Flier's Song; Western Landscape with Storm; Natural History; Every City; Part III; How the Dead Kiss; Part IV; The Blouse Keeps Opening; The Wounded Angel; Our Daughter; Impossible Garden; As One with Foot in Mouth; Like Freedom; Outlaws, According to the Movies ; In the Erogenous Zone of the Body PoliticNotes
• Sommario/riassunto: John Isles's Ark is about the people and events that pass through a life, leaving a void; about finding a presence in that absence and waking up to the realities of the present moment. It is concerned, at its watery heart, with discovery and confrontation, uncovering and witnessing, whether it be the new world, "the world behind every blouse," or the tender mysteries that can only be seen through the eyes of belief: that which "starts the wild grasses trembling."With its deft maneuvers through both a historical and an emotional landscape, Ark speaks to us with a truly conte
• Titolo autorizzato: Ark
• ISBN: 1-58729-445-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450808203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Kuhl House poets.