Every riven thing

Wiman, Christian 1966- (Author).

Summary: A collection of poems explores both sorrow and joy, presenting an optimistic celebration of life and love, while acknowledging man's ultimate mortality.

Record details

ISBN: 9780374533069 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0374533067 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 93 p. ; 21 cm
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Poems.

Formatted Contents Note:

Dust devil -- After the diagnosis -- Five houses down -- To grasp at the mercury minnows are -- Sitting down to breakfast alone -- All good conductors -- It takes particular clicks -- The mole -- Darkcharms -- Every riven thing -- This mind of dying -- One time -- From a window -- Voice of one hand -- Country in search of a symbol -- The wind is one force -- Hermitage -- Late fragment -- Do you remember the rude nudists -- Bombs rock Cairo -- Not altogether gone -- A good landscape for grief -- Jouissance -- And I said to my soul, be loud -- Hammer is the prayer -- When the time's toxins -- Small prayer in a hard wind -- The reservoir -- For D. -- I sing insomnia -- Then I slept into a terror world -- Lord is not a word -- So much a poet he despises poetry -- Given a God more playful -- Lord of having -- It is good to sit even a rotting body -- Gone for the day, she is the day.