Foreign Graces

by Laurie Block

When Laurie Block travelled to Chile, he found himself living his life in translation. Speaking, working, and forging new friendships entirely in Spanish, Block found that the new language altered his imaginative vision. As he began to compose poetry in Spanish, he developed his belief that all human language is like "a hand stretched out/to the fallen body," all poetry "a name for what can't be grasped." Foreign Graces presents poems first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189623948X
• ISBN13: 9781896239484
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.