Erratic Facts
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Erratic Facts

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
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Erratic Facts

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"Clear and lucid" poems from a US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner who "journeys through the landscape of memory, consciousness, loss, and love" ( The Washington Post ). Kay Ryan is acclaimed for her highly relatable, deeply insightful poems. Erratic Facts is her first new collection since the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Best of It, and it is animated with her signature swift, clearheaded, lyrical style. At once witty and melancholy, playful and heartfelt, Ryan examines enormous subjects—existence, consciousness, love, loss—in compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance. Her sly rhymes and strong cadences convey both musicality and wisdom. While these pieces are composed of the same brevity and vitality that have characterized her singular voice over the course of more than twenty years, her imagination is more eccentric and daring than ever. Erratic Facts solidifies Ryan's place at the pinnacle of American poetry. "Read a poem once and take in its crisp rhythms, subtle rhymes, and arresting images. Read it again and detect its hide-and-seek metaphors and meanings.... [Ryan's] quantum poems pose resonant questions of physics and metaphysics, of attentiveness and caring on scales intimate and universal." — Booklist

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Publisher
Grove Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780802190857
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Les femmes dans la poésie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Kay Ryan
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. NEW ROOMS
  8. ON THE NATURE OF UNDERSTANDING
  9. WHY EXPLAIN THE PRECISE BY WAY OF THE LESS PRECISE?
  10. SHIP IN A BOTTLE
  11. MONK STYLE
  12. DRY THINGS
  13. ERASURE
  14. AN INSTRUMENT WITH KEYS
  15. BRIEF REAL THINGS
  16. HOMAGE TO JOSEPH BRODSKY
  17. DOUBLE FLOOR
  18. FIZZ
  19. BREATHER
  20. ALL YOUR HORSES
  21. ALL YOU DID
  22. PUTTING THINGS IN PROPORTION
  23. PLAYACTING
  24. NIGHTINGALE FLOOR
  25. TOKEN LOSS
  26. SALVATION
  27. FOOL’S ERRANDS
  28. THE PAW OF A CAT
  29. VENICE
  30. TREADING WATER
  31. FATAL FLAW
  32. SPLITTING ICE
  33. CRISS CROSSES
  34. LITTLE DOTS
  35. DRAGON’S TEETH
  36. SHOOT THE MOON
  37. A KIND OF LIFE
  38. BUNCHED CLOTHS
  39. THE MAIN DIFFICULTY OF WATER WHEELS
  40. WHY IT IS HARD TO START
  41. MUSICAL CHAIRS
  42. SOCK
  43. MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE
  44. THINGS THAT HAVE STAYED IN POSITION
  45. METAL
  46. BURNING TENT
  47. TRACERS
  48. TRIPPED
  49. THOSE PLACES
  50. A TRENCH LIKE THAT
  51. ALMOST
  52. VELVET
  53. DYNAMIC SCALING
  54. MEMORY TABLE
  55. NATURE STUDY: SPOTS
  56. MISER TIME
  57. MORE OF THE SAME
  58. THE FIRST OF NEVER
  59. ALBUM
  60. THE OBSOLETION OF A LANGUAGE
  61. PARTY SHIP
  62. BLAST
  63. STILL START
  64. EGGS
  65. PINHOLE
  66. IN CASE OF COMPLETE REVERSAL
  67. STRUCK TREE
  68. ERRATIC FACTS
  69. Acknowledgements
  70. Back Cover