Picture Window: Poems

by John Hollander

Book Overview

In this deeply philosophical and highly inventive new collection, John Hollander, the distinguished author of numerous books of poetry, offers profound yet playful meditations on the reflective mind and on the words with which we come to know the world. In forms as varied as sonnets, songs, and ancient odes, he muses over the ways we use (and misuse) language as "we grasp the world by ear, by heart, by head / And keep it in a soft continuingness."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375710132
• ISBN13: 9780375710131
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"