Driven to Abstraction

by Rosmarie Waldrop

Book Overview

Even in a state of geometrical grace we cannot see time as it is, only as it passes. So the river shows us while softly disfiguring our waterlogged bodies on the way to vast projects of war.--Rosmarie Waldrop

Driven to Abstraction is Rosmarie Waldrop's sixth collection of poetry with New Directions. The first of its two sections, "Sway-Backed Powerlines," consists of five sequences of prose poems whose subject matter ranges from voyages of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811218791
• ISBN13: 9780811218795
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"