Movable Islands: Poems by Debora Greger (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 119) - Softcover

Greger, Debora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691013691 ISBN 13: 9780691013695

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1980

Synopsis

"If salvaging truth becomes difficult in cultures which keep rebuilding and changing their pasts or accept annually the repetitions of natural renewal, Debora Greger's Movable Islands demonstrates that it can still be done successfully."--Jerome Mazzaro, The Hudson Review

Originally published in 1980.

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About this title

About the Author

Debora Greger is the author of six volumes of poetry. She has won the Grolier Prize and the Discovery/"The Nation" Award, and her work has been published in the "New Yorker", "American Poetry Review", and "Paris Review", She teaches at the University of Florida.

Review

After Iceland, William Morris Dreams Of Panama
Any Story
The Armorer's Daughter
Bad Debts
Bearings
Body Of Work
Business
Calibrations
Closing
The Coloring Of Experience
Companion To Ships And The Sea
Crossing The Plains
Depths Of Field
Fall
Fictions
Field Glass
The First Movement
From This Angle
Going To Sleep
Grisaille
Hard Water
The Invention Of Routine
Knowing
Letter To My Sister
The Life Of The Remittance Man
The Light Passages
Long-distance Swimming
The Man On The Bed
Myopia
Natural Forces
Night Freight
Not You
Painted Desert
The Painter's Model
The Palace At 4 A.m.
Patches Of Sky
Pentimento
Physical Properties
Sea Change
A Second Or Third Dimesion
Sleeping Beauty
To Make You Well
Trappings
What Dances
White Fields
My Grandmother's Dolls
Pioneer Child's Doll
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0691013691
• ISBN 13: 9780691013695
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232