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Author Hearne, Vicki, 1946-2001.

Title Tricks of the light : new and selected poems / Vicki Hearne ; edited with an introduction by John Hollander
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages)
Contents Publisher's Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Posthumous Poems; Tricks of the Light; from Nervous Horses (1980); from In the Absence of Horses (1983); from The Parts of Light (1994); Notes; A Note on the Editing; Index of Titles and First Lines
Summary From The Horse That, Trotting The horse that, trotting with open heartAgainst the wind, achieves bend and flowWill live forever. So far, so good, But they never do, until too late, Bend properly and time spreads from the momentary hesitations Of their spines, circles their tossing necks, Falls from their teeth like rejected oats, Litters the ground like penitence. This is where we come in, where the dropOf time congeals the air and someone Speaks to the discouraged grass ... Tricks of the Light explores the often fraught relationships between domestic animals and humans through mythological fig
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index
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Subject Hearne, Vicki, 1946-2001.
SUBJECT Hearne, Vicki, 1946-2001 fast
Subject POETRY / General.
Form Electronic book
Author Hollander, John
LC no. 2006033044
ISBN 9780226322469
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1282004891
9781282004894
9786612004896
6612004894