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The River Twice: Poems

The River Twice: Poems

Graber, Kathleen

Paperback

Series: Princeton Contemporary Poets, Book 141

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 0691193215
ISBN13: 9780691193212
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Sep 10 2019
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
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.

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