The Cloud of Knowable Things

by Elaine Equi

Book Overview

Clear yet complex, these poems animate the things closest to us--objects, fantasies, culture high and low.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566891426
• ISBN13: 9781566891424
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A collection of free-verse and varied-style poems

The Cloud Of Knowable Things is a collection of free-verse and varied-style poems by Elaine Equi that peer closely into everyday surroundings and unearth the overlooked enigma of the sublime workings of the cosmos. Minutia and grand unknowable designs combine in a cavalcade of lilting syllables. The Lost Poems: Your Average Dream/Fetish-Shroud/Victor Mature's Kiss/The Snow Queen's Summer House//In a Nutshell/De-composing/vintage Blouse/Politics and Vaseline//Mister Preface/Charm-Quake/Postponing the Future/Notice Each Part//The Cloud's Tantrum/Harlequin with a Gun