From "Erosion"
SAN SEPOLCRO
"Jorie Graham"
. . . . How clean
the mind is,
holy grave. It is this girl
by Piero
della Francesca, unbuttoning
her blue dress,
her mantle of weather,
to go into
labor. Come, we can go in.
It is before
the birth of god. No-one
has risen yet
to the museums, to the assembly
line bodies
and wings to the open air
market. This is
what the living do: go in.
It's a long way.
And the dress keeps opening
from eternity
to privacy, quickening.
Inside, at the heart,
is tragedy, the present moment
forever stillborn,
but going in, each breath
is a button
coming undone, something terribly
nimble-fingered
finding all of the stops.
Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Her first book, "Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts" (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.
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From "Erosion"
SAN SEPOLCRO
"Jorie Graham"
. . . . How clean
the mind is,
holy grave. It is this girl
by Piero
della Francesca, unbuttoning
her blue dress,
her mantle of weather,
to go into
labor. Come, we can go in.
It is before
the birth of god. No-one
has risen yet
to the museums, to the assembly
line bodies
and wings to the open air
market. This is
what the living do: go in.
It's a long way.
And the dress keeps opening
from eternity
to privacy, quickening.
Inside, at the heart,
is tragedy, the present moment
forever stillborn,
but going in, each breath
is a button
coming undone, something terribly
nimble-fingered
finding all of the stops.
Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Her first book, "Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts" (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.
Imprint | Princeton University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets |
Release date | May 1983 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | May 1983 |
Authors | Jorie Graham |
Dimensions | 216 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 96 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-01405-0 |
Barcode | 9780691014050 |
Categories | |
LSN | 0-691-01405-1 |