For Louis Pasteur

by Edgar Bowers

Book Overview

In poems about his friends, his family's place in Georgia, trips to New Mexico, persons in the Old Testament, and Louis Pasteur, Edgar Bowers writes to place and examine his subjects and his experiences in history and in cultures. The "Thirteen Views of Santa Barbara," for example, is grounded in a place usually perceived as "ahistoric" with the same motive that prompts him to ask in the title poem: "How shall a generation know its story / If it will...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691068100
• ISBN13: 9780691068107
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"