Erosion - (Princeton Contemporary Poets) by Jorie Graham (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>From <i>Erosion</i>: <br>SAN SEPOLCRO</b> <p/> <i>Jorie Graham</i><br> ? <p/> . . . . How clean<br>the mind is, <br>holy grave. It is this girl<br>by Piero<br>della Francesca, unbuttoning<br>her blue dress, <br>her mantle of weather, <br>to go into<br>labor. Come, we can go in.<br>It is before<br>the birth of god. No-one<br>has risen yet<br>to the museums, to the assembly<br>line bodies<br>and wings to the open air<br>market. This is<br>what the living do: go in.<br>It's a long way.<br>And the dress keeps opening<br>from eternity<br>to privacy, quickening.<br>Inside, at the heart, <br>is tragedy, the present moment<br>forever stillborn, <br>but going in, each breath<br>is a button<br>coming undone, something terribly<br>nimble-fingered<br>finding all of the stops. <p/><br> <b>Jorie Graham</b> grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Her first book, <i>Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts</i> (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The attempt to find all the stops, to range through the gamut of possibility, makes Ms. Graham a poet of landscape and memory as well as a poet of art.-- "The New York Times Book Review"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Jorie Graham</b> grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California.<br>She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.<br>Her first book, <i>Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts</i> (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980.</p>
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