Natural History Poems

Name: Natural History Poems
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ISBN: 9780375711152

ISBN-10: 0375711155

ISBN-13: 9780375711152

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Authors: Dan Chiasson

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Dan Chiasson, hailed as "one of the most gifted poets of his generation" upon the appearance of his first book, takes inspiration for his stunning new collection from the "Historia Naturalis" of Pliny the Elder. "What happens next, you won't believe," Chiasson writes in "From the Life of Gorky," and it is fair warning. This collection suggests that a person is like a world, full of mysteries and wonders-and equally in need of an encyclopedia, a compendium of everything known. The long title sequence offers entries such as "The Sun" ("There is one mind in all of us, one soul, / who parches the soil in some nations / but in others hides perpetually behind a veil"), "The Elephant" ("How to…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/25/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 84
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.39" long x 0.28" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English

Dan Chiassonis associate professor of English at Wellesley College. He is the author of three books of poetry,The Afterlife of Objects, Natural History,andWhere’s the Moon, There’s the Moon.