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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780880014762
ISBN: 0880014768
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: January 01, 1997
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: January 01, 1997
Studio: Ecco
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This collection of Jorie Graham's poetry spans twenty years of writing with selections from her five previous volumes of poetry, including Erosion and Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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The 1996 Pulitzer winner in poetry and a major collection, Jorie Graham's The Dream of the United Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 spans twenty years of writing and includes generous selections from her first five books: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness,and Materialism.
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Jorie Graham, The Dream of the Unified Field: Poems 1974-1994 (Ecco, 1995)
I love Jorie Graham's early work, the wunderkind poems of the seventies that established her as a real force in the world of poetry. Good, solid imagist stuff that tells its tale and gets out:
"...I'd watch
its path of body in the grass go
suddenly invisible
only to reappear a little
further on
black knothead up, eyes on
a butterfly."
("I Watched a ... Read More
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Starting with her splendid beginnings as a voice so uniquely visual that it could only later obsess her, The Dream begins with an explanation of The Way Things Work
and descends (travels sideways and expands like interstellar gas)
into the full-throttle Graham of the middle period,
long lines,
huge gusts of philosophy and sight,
and of course her ever-evolving attempts to cut into cross-sections of the silences air holds and which we bend to try to understand.
This ... Read More
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After reading and re-reading this collection, the first thought that crossed my mind was, "I want something magnificent to happen to me today!" I felt myself dissolving from today and re-emerging into a mythical tomorrow, where words and phrases would be coins of the realm. Graham is the owner magic; spellbinding and lucid and yet swirling together the elements of The Actual and The Figurative; hybrids of each other, till the eventuality of their meanings and intents just simply trade places! Graham's ... Read More
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Since Jorie Graham is so innovative, of course she's controversial. Don't be fooled. Her books since since The Dream of the Unified Field have each been major achievements for the poet & significantly innovative for poetry; this book contains many of her most important earlier works & shows the immense development in the first 5 books of a poet for whom each book is a critical examination & leap beyond everything she has done before. This poetry is really intense. More & more, every poem is so monumental. ... Read More
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while her poetry isn't the worst i've read, graham's isn't that great... her poems drag on, all could be cut by about half or even a third. she seems to forget just what the english language can do in the hands of a master, because her poems are flat and i've heard of people talking about her work being difficult. i think they confuse difficult with nothing to say.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780880014762
ISBN: 0880014768
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: January 01, 1997
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: January 01, 1997
Studio: Ecco