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Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry, buying a sandwich, and riding the subway are familiar experiences, one makes room for the actual to ally with the hypothetical by means of the emotions. The result, Wiese eloquently shows, is a form of truth that is silently generated whenever human beings earnestly endeavor to absorb the world.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807132357
ISBN13:9780807132357
Release Date:March 2007
Publisher:LSU Press
Length:72 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 6.3" x 8.0"
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Just read one of the poems, gonna buy the book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Read "Tell Me", on "The Writer's Almanac" daily e-mail. Had to read the last line twice. A great thought: To be done with caring so much about what others think of me; No more secrets between us. I see myself reading this collection, appreciating life, gaining a little wisdom. Thank you to the author.
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