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Orphan Hours Poems

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ISBN-10: 0393076644

ISBN-13: 9780393076646

Edition: 2012

Authors: Stanley Plumly

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Orphan Hours is a book of reconciliation, of coming to terms with time in its most personal and memorable manifestations, and of learning the wisdom of what cannot be changed. The urgency of the elegy has been absorbed by an acceptance of the detail, texture, and small moments that constitute and enrich mortality.from Lapsed MeadowI remember, in Ohio, fields of wastes of nature,lost pasture, fallow clearings, buckwheatand fireweed and broken sparrow nests,especially in the summer, in the fading hilltop sun,when you could lose yourself by simply lying down.Who will find you, who will call you home now, at dusk,with the dry tips of the goldenrod confusedwith a little wind, filling in what’s…    
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Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/4/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.60" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Stanley Plumly is Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland.