Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Willard, Nancy

 
9780679765646: Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems

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Working in traditional forms such as the elegy, the litany, and the ballad, the poet presents her twelfth book of poetry, a celebration of the ordinary and a revelation of singularly painful subjects shared by all. Reprint.

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g and long-awaited book of 30 new poems plus the best from ten of Nancy Willard's previous poetry collection. Here are the finest examples of her diverse style and her unique vision, at once joyful and profound--a welcome collection for longtime fans and a wonderful introduction for newcomers.


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The Fruit Bat

Because the air has darkened
like bruised fruit, you creep
down the bare branch

where you slept all light long,
gathered into yourself like a fig.
Little madarin woman fleeing

under the stars on bound feet,
when your wings spring open
even you look surprised.

What are the raven's slick feathers
beside these pewter sails
raised in the foundry of your flesh,

burnished by light poured
from a wasted moon and a dipper
brimming with darkness?

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ISBN 10:  0679446397 ISBN 13:  9780679446392
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996
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