This Minute

by Jean Gallagher

Book Overview

This Minute is a connected whole, in which the verse is driven by strong intellectual excitement, evident in the energetic movement of the lines and in a vocabulary that switches easily from the colloquial to the exact. There is an urgent voice, felt close at hand. And there is a skill in handling and matching the size of a poem to its subject that makes each invigorating to read--one arrives slightly out of breath. These poems convey a "metaphysical"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082322547X
• ISBN13: 9780823225477
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"