Grace, Fallen from

by Marianne Boruch

Book Overview

Illuminating poetry that quiets and startles and troublesIn her wry and riveting new collection, Marianne Boruch discovers things often taken for granted and holds them up to deceptively casual light,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819568635
• ISBN13: 9780819568632
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Wesleyan
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.6"

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The third anthology of poetry from veteran poet Marianne Boruch

The third anthology of poetry from veteran poet Marianne Boruch, entitled "Grace, Fallen From" is now available. In this gripping collection of poems, Boruch touches on a wide range of subjects, and in the process, evokes a long range of emotions from her readers, from humor to making her readers think to pulling at their heart strings, Boruch does it all. "Grace, Fallen From" is a deftly composed volume of poetry and a pick for any poetry lover or community library poetry collection. February: The sparrow on the trash again, one/leg missing, he/alights and drops down, alights/in this cold, and crooked,/drops down again through he could/fly. He has to, most of the day/I imagine, into its/exhaustion, those moments he/finds a window sill or a patch/of sold leaves under some/overhang, his one leg, good wire, pulled under him, feathers/puffed out - swollen thing, ridiculous -/ for warmth. All the lives I/might have had: this one, oh, this one.