stated first printing with a number line to the 2. used paperback in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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Title

The Theory and Practice of Rivers

Publisher

Winn Books February 1986

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0916947068

ISBN 13

9780916947064

Binding

Trade Paperback

Edition

1st Edition.

Printing

1st Edition

Condition

FIRST / VG

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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poetry

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The Theory and Practice of Rivers

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The long title sequence of Harrison's seventh poetry collection is a journey upward from tragedy and unconsciousness, a fitful amalgam of memory and myth, meditation and nightmare, lucidity and delirium. It's the life-passing-before-one's-eyes at the precipice of death rendered in tranquility. In "trying to become alert enough to live," the narrator sinks and surfaces, clutching at vivid bits of psychic debris that collectively define "the longest journey taken in a split second." Harrison combines the rustic, the portentous, and the wry ("I had forgotten what it was I liked/ about life. I hear if you own a chimpanzee/ they cease at a point to be funny") with mixed but often penetrating results. Spare, idiographic illustrations by Russell Chatham complement the poems. Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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