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Window left open : poems / Jennifer Grotz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 47 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1555977308
  • 9781555977306 :
  • 9781555977306
Subject(s):
Contents:
The forest -- Locked -- The snow apples -- Snow -- Snowflakes -- On the library steps -- The whole world is gone -- Denial -- Listening -- Hanover in Paris -- Watchmaker -- Self-portrait on the street of an unnamed foreign city -- Edinburgh meditation -- The broom -- The mountain -- Scorpion -- Dragonfly and wasp -- They come the way flowers do -- The fog -- Apricots -- Sundials -- A poem about a peacock -- Cherries -- The piano on top of the alps -- Window left open -- Poppies.
Summary: "The supreme art of Window left open is that of close attention to the world the poet passes through"--Page [4] of cover.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.6 G881 Available 33111008391217
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The poppies are wild, they are only beautiful and tall
so long as you do not cut them,
they are like the feral cat who purrs and rubs against your leg
but will scratch you if you touch back.
Love is letting the world be half-tamed.
--from "Poppies"

In this lush, intricately crafted collection, Jennifer Grotz explores how we can become strange to ourselves through escape, isolation, desire--and by leaving the window open. These poems are full of the sensory pleasures of the natural world and a slowed-down concept of time as Grotz records the wonders of travel, a sojourn at a French monastery, and the translation of thoughts into words, words into another language, language into this remarkable poetry. Window Left Open is a beautiful and resounding book, one that traces simultaneously the intimacy and the vastness of the world.

The forest -- Locked -- The snow apples -- Snow -- Snowflakes -- On the library steps -- The whole world is gone -- Denial -- Listening -- Hanover in Paris -- Watchmaker -- Self-portrait on the street of an unnamed foreign city -- Edinburgh meditation -- The broom -- The mountain -- Scorpion -- Dragonfly and wasp -- They come the way flowers do -- The fog -- Apricots -- Sundials -- A poem about a peacock -- Cherries -- The piano on top of the alps -- Window left open -- Poppies.

"The supreme art of Window left open is that of close attention to the world the poet passes through"--Page [4] of cover.

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