In this Book
- Floating City: Poems
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: Louisiana State University Press
- Series: Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- One IN THE GARDEN
- pp. 1-2
- Mica Schist
- p. 5
- All Night Long
- p. 6
- Undergrowth
- p. 8
- In the Garden
- p. 9
- Sonnet to Basil
- p. 10
- Ficus Noire
- p. 11
- Spring Planting
- pp. 12-13
- Two LAST NIGHT IN BROOKLYN
- pp. 19-20
- In the Beginning
- p. 21
- The Taking
- p. 22
- Silver Palace
- p. 24
- Sugar Hill, Harlem
- p. 26
- Where We Live
- p. 27
- Death Has No Place
- p. 28
- At the Laundromat
- p. 30
- The Great Roberto
- p. 32
- Thanksgiving
- pp. 34-35
- Columbus Park
- p. 37
- Early Bird
- p. 38
- Evening Rush
- p. 40
- Body Elite
- p. 43
- Everything but God
- p. 45
- How We Memorize
- p. 48
- Bicentennial
- p. 49
- Three WIND FARM
- pp. 51-52
- You Are Here
- p. 59
- Needle and Thread
- p. 61
- The Distance
- p. 66
Additional Information
ISBN
9780807165157
Related ISBN(s)
9780807132357
MARC Record
OCLC
966822920
Pages
72
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No