The River Twice

Poems

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Drama, Anthologies, Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book The River Twice by Kathleen Graber, Princeton University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Kathleen Graber ISBN: 9780691194295
Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication: September 10, 2019
Imprint: Princeton University Press Language: English
Author: Kathleen Graber
ISBN: 9780691194295
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication: September 10, 2019
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Language: English

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award

Taking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. The world presented in these poems is a fluid one in which so much—including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself—seems protean, as the speaker's previously familiar understanding of the self and the larger systems around it gives way. Kathleen Graber’s poems wander widely, from the epistolary to the essayistic, shuffling the remarkable and unremarkable flotsam of contemporary life. One thought, one memory, one bit of news flows into the next. Yet, in a century devoted to exponentially increasing speed, The River Twice unfolds at the slow pace of a river bend. While the warm light of ideas and things flashes upon the surface, that which endures remains elusive—something glimpsed only for an instant before it is gone.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award

Taking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. The world presented in these poems is a fluid one in which so much—including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself—seems protean, as the speaker's previously familiar understanding of the self and the larger systems around it gives way. Kathleen Graber’s poems wander widely, from the epistolary to the essayistic, shuffling the remarkable and unremarkable flotsam of contemporary life. One thought, one memory, one bit of news flows into the next. Yet, in a century devoted to exponentially increasing speed, The River Twice unfolds at the slow pace of a river bend. While the warm light of ideas and things flashes upon the surface, that which endures remains elusive—something glimpsed only for an instant before it is gone.

More books from Princeton University Press

Cover of the book Troubling the Waters by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book Our Bodies, Whose Property? by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book The Soul of the World by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book The End of Theory by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book The Crisis of the Twelfth Century by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book Dining Posture in Ancient Rome by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book Digital Dice by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book An Einstein Encyclopedia by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book Aboutness by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book Line in the Sand by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book GDP by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book Mafias on the Move by Kathleen Graber
Cover of the book Wandering Greeks by Kathleen Graber
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy