King's Question

Name: King's Question
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ISBN: 9781555975111

ISBN-10: 1555975119

ISBN-13: 9781555975111

Edition: N/A

Authors: Brian Culhane

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Brian Culhane7;s deeply felt and accomplished debut, winner of the poetry foundation7;s Emily Dickinson First Book Award Let just one of those quicksilver hours be returned to me, With my knowledge now of the world, and not a boy7;s, With all that I have become a lighted room. One hour To ask the question that burned, once, in a King7;s throat. -from 0;The King7;s Question1; In the poet Brian Culhane7;sThe King7;s Question, fragments of the ancient past emerge from contemporary life to reveal rich and resonant correspondences. So the glow of a writer7;s desk lamp evokes the torchlight of Viking raiders at Lindisfarne; a father7;s scattered library summons the lost Library of Alexandria; the…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 9/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English



Scipio's Dream


Error


Paradigm


Library


Hexameter


History of the Mediterranean


Monument


Knowing Greek


For One Who First Showed Me Scipio's Dream


This Winter


The King's Question


Just a Moment to Memorize the Past


Harrow in Field


Another Europe


Estrangement in Athens


Chekhov's "The Student" (April, 1894)


The Last Canto


The Western Intellectual Tradition


Shadow Work


Philosophy, Writ Small


Angelus Novus


Beyond Book's Horizon


At Wallace Stevens' Grave


For Z. Herbert


Posthumous


Glossarium


Envoi


Notes