A Diary of Altered Light: Poems - Brossura

Applewhite, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 080713127X ISBN 13: 9780807131275

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

These poems record the partly predictable, partly random representative days in a year that inspire wonder at their swiftness. Seasonal time is reflected in the changing angle of sunlight, and familial time is marked by birthdays and holiday celebrations. Public events take on both a sense of history and a sense of unreality in the bright glare of media attention and shiny celebrity surfaces. All the various time-orders in which we live overlay one another: a red leaf adrift in a stream is emblematic of autumn's recurrence; after years of marriage, a couple's wedding suddenly seems very close. Spurred by the sensation of accelerating days at the turn of the new millennium, James Applewhite explores the interplay of immediate experience and lasting memory, of continuity and change, over time-that elusive, ineffable, yet crucial medium of self-definition and of understanding the cosmos.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 080713127X
• ISBN 13: 9780807131275
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 63
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile