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Additional authors

1. Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

1. 84 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan's third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan's poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Sometimes gaudily ornamental, sometimes Shaker-plain, here is verse that is compact on the page and expansive in the mind.

Subject

1. 2000-2099
2. American poetry > 21st century
3. Women poets, American
4. Poetry, Modern > 21st century

Genre/Form

1. poetry.
2. Poetry
3. Poésie.

Contents

1. Living with stripes -- Doubt -- Mirage oases -- Cirque -- That vase of lilacs -- Chemistry -- Connections -- Dew -- Lacquer artist -- All shall be restored -- Full measure -- Stars of Bethlehems -- Crib -- Bestiary -- How birds sing -- How a thought thinks -- Intention -- If the moon happened once -- New clothes -- Simply by growing larger -- To the young anglerfish -- Crustacean Island -- Creatures of the margins -- Imaginary Eskimos -- Outsider art -- Caught -- Salts -- Les Petites Confitures -- Why isn't it all more marked -- Witness -- Learning -- Apogee -- Killing time -- Against gravity -- Lacunae -- Intransigence -- Age -- Counsel -- Insult -- Silence -- A cat / a future -- Hope -- Losses -- The cabinet of curiosities -- To explain the solitary -- Her politeness -- Bad patch -- Swept up whole -- Any morning -- Relief -- Part midas -- The woman who wrote too much -- Surfaces -- Sonnet to spring -- A plain ordinary steel needle can float on pure water -- Distance -- The vessel and the cup -- Wooden -- The second -- Heat -- Poetry in translation -- If she only had one minute -- Elephant rocks.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Poems.

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