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McMorris, Mark
ISBN: 9781566892360
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Coffee House Press
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"McMorris is a poet utterly devoted to the sensual beauty of language and he crafts lines dense and strong enough to bear the crashing forces of history and identity contained within them . . . his work is wrenching, lovely, and powerfully seductive."…
"McMorris is a poet utterly devoted to the sensual beauty of language and he crafts lines dense and strong enough to bear the crashing forces of history and identity contained within them . . . his work is wrenching, lovely, and powerfully seductive."-"Poetry Project Newsletter" Within the intimate, enlightened, and dazzling linguistic flights of these poem-letters, Mark McMorris engages a world that has experienced "continuous combat since Helen gave Paris a flower / at least since the Bronze Age of Agamemnon's armada." Born in Jamaica, Mark McMorris has won the Contemporary Poetry Series prize and has been a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He teaches at Georgetown University where he directs the Lannan Literary Programs.
| ISBN | 1566892368 | | Format | Paperback | | ISBN13 | 9781566892360
(What's this?) | | Publication date | 01 Feb 2010 | | Publisher | Coffee House Press | | Pages | 90 | | Imprint | COFFEE HOUSE PR | | Volumes | 1 |
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| i | | The Mirror Says | | | | | | Letter for K & Poems for Someone Else | | | | | | "The mirror says" (Dear Michael 1) | | 13 | | | | Dear K | | 14 | | | | "The larks punctuate the morning" | | 15 | | | | "And so the vehicles came from driveways" | | 16 | | | | "When the combat finally stops" | | 19 | | ii | | Vanishings | | | | | | Letters to Michael | | | | | | Dear Michael (2) ("The wound cannot close") | | 23 | | | | Dear Michael (3) ("Will we ever leave") | | 24 | | | | Dear Michael (4) ("So I adopt a style and say") | | 25 | | | | Dear Michael (5) (''A scatter of driftwood") | | 27 | | | | Dear Michael (6) ("Say hello and goodbye") | | 28 | | | | Dear Horatius (Dear Michael) (7) | | 30 | | | | Anaphora of Shadows | | 32 | | | | Letters to Michael | | | | | | Dear Michael (8) ("No grammar will console") | | 44 | | iii | | Auditions For Utopia | | | | | | Letters to Michael | | | | | | Dear Michael (9) ("If writing is the climbing") | | 47 | | | | Dear Michael (10) ("Because tales are fragrant") | | 49 | | | | Auditions for Utopia | | 50 | | | | Photo-Journalism | | 64 | | | | Gadji Beri Bimba | | 66 | | | | The Faith of Falling | | 75 | | iv | | Collage | | | | | | Little Dog with Bananas | | 79 | | v | | Zero Orchid | | | | | | Letters to Michael | | | | | More... | | |
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