The Earth as Air: Poetry

by Gustaf Sobin

Book Overview

"Earth, the dense element of our residence, our realities, raised, heightened, transformed--by language alone--into its spacious complement: air"--with this succinct remark Gustaf Sobin suggests his intentions in his newest collection. Word chases word in the poet's search for the transcendent. In lyric transformation, the poems in The Earth as Air arise out of the particular, the graphic, the intensely perceived, turning experience into the weightless particles of a new, intellective music.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811208931
• ISBN13: 9780811208932
• Release Date: April 1984
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.9"