Balance as belief
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Balance as belief
（Johns Hopkins, Poetry and fiction）
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1989
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Description and Table of Contents
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: hdc : alk. paper ISBN 9780801838934
Table of Contents
John Hollander, "Blue Wine" and Other Poems
Robert Pack, Waking to My Name: New and Selected Poems
Philip Dacey, The Boy Under the Bed
Wyatt Prunty, The Times Between
Barry Spacks, Spacks Street: New and Selected Poems
Gibbons Ruark, Keeping Company
David St. John, Hush
Wyatt Prunty, What Women Know, What Men Believe
Adrien Stoutenberg, Land of Superior Mirages: New and Selected Poems
John Hollander, In Time and Place
Charles Martin, Steal the Bacon
John Bricuth, The Heisenberg Variations
Tom Disch, Yes, Let's: New and Selected Poems
Wyatt Prunty, Balance as Belief
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: pbk : alk. paper ISBN 9780801838941
Description
In Wyatt Prunty's new collection of poems, people either keep their balance or, doubting it, tip and fall. A small girl struggles to ride her bike among older children already 'stable as little gyros.' Ice-skating with friends, a boy suddenly drops from sight, and drowns. The poet of Paterson stands at the edge of his Jersey waterfall and knows that 'good balance is belief.' Poising and counterpoising themselves in settings at once fixed and erosive, the people in these poems move through 'one long revisionary river that curls back against itself, as if the only way to move ahead was by deflecting back.'
Table of Contents
John Hollander, "Blue Wine" and Other Poems
Robert Pack, Waking to My Name: New and Selected Poems
Philip Dacey, The Boy Under the Bed
Wyatt Prunty, The Times Between
Barry Spacks, Spacks Street: New and Selected Poems
Gibbons Ruark, Keeping Company
David St. John, Hush
Wyatt Prunty, What Women Know, What Men Believe
Adrien Stoutenberg, Land of Superior Mirages: New and Selected Poems
John Hollander, In Time and Place
Charles Martin, Steal the Bacon
John Bricuth, The Heisenberg Variations
Tom Disch, Yes, Let's: New and Selected Poems
Wyatt Prunty, Balance as Belief
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