Isbn: 9780393353471 - scavenger loop: poems (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. In this masterful new work by ?the most moving and expansive poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright? (Marilyn Hacker), David Baker constructs a layered natural history of his beloved Midwest and traces the complex story of human habitation from family and village life to the evolving nature of work and the mysterious habitats of the heart. At the centre of Scavenger Loop is a sustained investigation of cycles and the natural recycling of things and a discovery that even out of the discarded and the lost may come rebirth and renewal. In the process Baker reveals how everything bears the potential to be both invasive and life-giving: plants that beautify and conquer, chemicals that heal and destroy, words that mislead and instruct. Widely praised for his ?impeccable formalism? (Booklist), Baker pushes to new stylistic methods, moving fluidly between unity and disorder, working at times in sustained narratives and intricate syllabics, at other times in fragments, cross-outs, and erasures. These poems praise and sing but are also clear-eyed in their documentation of destruction, the loss of human livelihood and natural habitat, the spreading threat of agri-business and unchecked development. From eco-poetics to the erotic, Scavenger Loop measures the dimensions of the pastoral and the elegy in contemporary lyric poetry.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. pp. 112.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 109 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. "[The] language . Feels almost ancient solely by the skill with which Baker uses it."-Los Angeles Review of Books. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 182 x 8. Weight in Grams: 138. . 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …