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isbn 9781571319210
Автор произведения Wayne Miller
Жанр Зарубежные стихи
Издательство Ingram
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© 2016, Text by Wayne Miller
© 2016, Cover art by Lisa Gilman
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Published 2016 by Milkweed Editions
Printed in Canada
Cover design by Adam B. Bohannon
Cover photos by Lisa Gilman
Author photo by Jennifer Drake
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Miller, Wayne, 1976-
[Poems. Selections]
Post-poems / Wayne Miller. — First edition.
pages; cm
ISBN 978-1-57131-470-3 (alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-57131-921-0 (ebook)
I. Title.
PS3613.I56245A6 2016
811’.6—dc23 2015029240
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For Sean & Harper & Jeanne
my City
CONTENTS
1 The Debt
3 Swallows
7 House Near the Airport
8 Consumers in Rowboat
9 Post-Elegy
10 Marriage
11 The Next Generation
12 The Mind Sliding
13 Leaving the Hospital
14 A Bit about the Soul
15 The Affair
16 Prayers (w/Answers)
17 Report from the Provinces
18 Image: Postmodernity
19 Post-Elegy
20 On Language
21 A Breath in the Record
22 Allegory of the House
23 Post-Elegy
24 Landings
25 Ballad (American, 21st Century)
26 Hoax Bomb
27 Some Notes on Human Relations
28 Image: Psychotherapy
29 21st Century Museum
30 For Harper, 20 Months Old
31 Allegory of the Boat
32 Post-Elegy
33 On Breathing
34 Envoi
Notes
Acknowledgments
[T]he past is not closed, it receives meaning from our present actions.
CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ
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