Corbus patricia (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Finestra's Window, Patricia Corbus's starting point is home, where ' in pearly clouds / called fog we sit / on unseen chairs / . We stay, we go.' When she goes, there are no limits to her flights, which, for example, may take her to 'the vast loneliness of fledgling planets, / bitter-smelling rocks in empty rivers, / not decaying in patience like houses or bodes.' Corbus, as one of her titles puts it, is an escape artist, whose flights may also carry her to radical origins, as when she falls 'into God before he tought / of dividing up, back when he rolled his tongue about hismefl like a marble or sheep's eye, / before he reaised a window in himself and looked out.' Wit and driving force, newly minted metaphors, vocabulary forged in energy, and unflappable nerve make these poems something genuinely new. Finestra's Window will be an energy source fo generations to come.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Cover art by Lili Bezner. Fine in glossy wrappers. Nicely Inscribed to Pulitzer Price-winning poet Donald Justice on the title page. Laid in is an ALS from Corbus to Justice, passing the book along (a U-shaped piece was cut out and replaced using tape), as well as a publisher's advertisement for the book. In the only wrapper blurb, the redoubtable Tony Hoagland writes: "Here are some poems that Wallace Stevens did not have time to write. But he might have, had he been a woman poet, living in late twentieth-century Florida. Patricia Corbus is a gutsy, very talented poet.".…