Splitting and Binding

by Pattiann Rogers

Book Overview

These intense and intelligent poems resist oblivion and void in an infinite process of fulfillment of potentiality. Beginning with death, they evolve into the immortality of transformation. A dead star becomes marsh, a disintegrated sun sings in the rubbings and gratings of the red-legged locust. The mind, ancestor of the sky, contemplates "the nature of itself/ In the motion of stars"; "the mind /Has been obligated from the beginning/ To create an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819511730
• ISBN13: 9780819511737
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Wesleyan
• Length: 61 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.1"