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Elephant rocks / Kay Ryan.

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Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan's third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan's poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Sometimes gaudily o...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Ryan, Kay
Corporate Author: Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, c1996.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Grove Press poetry series.
Subjects:
American poetry > 21st century.
Women poets, American.
Poetry, Modern > 21st century.
American poetry.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Living with stripes
  • Doubt
  • Mirage oases
  • Cirque
  • That vase of lilacs
  • Chemistry
  • Connections
  • Dew
  • Lacquer artist
  • All shall be restored
  • Full measure
  • Stars of Bethlehems
  • Crib
  • Bestiary
  • How birds sing
  • How a thought thinks
  • Intention
  • If the moon happened once
  • New clothes
  • Simply by growing larger
  • To the young anglerfish
  • Crustacean Island
  • Creatures of the margins
  • Imaginary Eskimos
  • Outsider art
  • Caught
  • Salts
  • Les Petites Confitures
  • Why isn't it all more marked
  • Witness
  • Learning
  • Apogee
  • Killing time
  • Against gravity
  • Lacunae
  • Intransigence
  • Age
  • Counsel
  • Insult
  • Silence
  • A cat / a future
  • Hope
  • Losses
  • The cabinet of curiosities
  • To explain the solitary
  • Her politeness
  • Bad patch
  • Swept up whole
  • Any morning
  • Relief
  • Part midas
  • The woman who wrote too much
  • Surfaces
  • Sonnet to spring
  • A plain ordinary steel needle can float on pure water
  • Distance
  • The vessel and the cup
  • Wooden
  • The second
  • Heat
  • Poetry in translation
  • If she only had one minute
  • Elephant rocks.

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