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Fine in an about fine dj. (Previous owner's name inked at head of front endpaper. Couple of tiny edge crimps at head of front panel of dj.) Poet's elusive SECOND book. A stunning copy. (GC). Seller Inventory # 310514
Bibliographic Details
Title: EROSION.
Publisher: PRINCETON., PRINCETON
Publication Date: 1983
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
From Erosion:
SAN SEPOLCRO
Jorie Graham
?
. . . . How clean
the mind is,
holy grave. It is this girl
by Piero
della Francesca, unbuttoning
her blue dress,
her mantle of weather,
to go into
labor. Come, we can go in.
It is before
the birth of god. No-one
has risen yet
to the museums, to the assembly
line bodies
and wings to the open air
market. This is
what the living do: go in.
It's a long way.
And the dress keeps opening
from eternity
to privacy, quickening.
Inside, at the heart,
is tragedy, the present moment
forever stillborn,
but going in, each breath
is a button
coming undone, something terribly
nimble-fingered
finding all of the stops.
Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Her first book, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.
Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.
She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Her first book, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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