Thread

by Michael Palmer and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Michael Palmer's new collection is structured in two parts, "What I Did Not Say" and "Thread," subtitled "Stanzas in Counterlight." It begins with a beautiful suite of poems featuring The Master of Shadows (first glimpsed in his 2006 collection The Company of Moths). The counterlight of the title section shines in shafts of Palmer's ever-surprising ironic wit, which is given to sidelong parallel leaps. Several poems in Thread directly address our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811219216
• ISBN13: 9780811219211
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"