Fleet River
Fleet River traces the journey of two travelers through landscapes earthly and otherworldly, following the river as it turns, dips underground, then reemerges unexpectedly as they fall in love with the world, as though for the first time. Mimicking the river's shifting course, the poems revise themselves as the book moves forward, turning against their own best discoveries, proving that the pilgrims' journey is less the discovery of love than the re-creation, poem by poem, of love's possibilities.
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Fleet River
Fleet River traces the journey of two travelers through landscapes earthly and otherworldly, following the river as it turns, dips underground, then reemerges unexpectedly as they fall in love with the world, as though for the first time. Mimicking the river's shifting course, the poems revise themselves as the book moves forward, turning against their own best discoveries, proving that the pilgrims' journey is less the discovery of love than the re-creation, poem by poem, of love's possibilities.
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Fleet River

Fleet River

by James Longenbach
Fleet River

Fleet River

by James Longenbach

Overview

Fleet River traces the journey of two travelers through landscapes earthly and otherworldly, following the river as it turns, dips underground, then reemerges unexpectedly as they fall in love with the world, as though for the first time. Mimicking the river's shifting course, the poems revise themselves as the book moves forward, turning against their own best discoveries, proving that the pilgrims' journey is less the discovery of love than the re-creation, poem by poem, of love's possibilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226492698
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 04/30/2003
Series: Phoenix Poets
Edition description: 1
Pages: 72
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

James Longenbach is the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester. He is the author of four distinguished critical studies of twentieth-century poetry, most recently Modern Poetry after Modernism. His first book of poems, Threshold, was published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Visible World
Learning Window
Geese
Sleepless Night
No Explanation
Unspoken
Photographs
Skin
Potential Space
Water Vapor
Providence
Fleet River
The Two Together
Before Time
The Renaissance Frost
Look There
Orion
Close Up
The Stranger
Overhead
Ground Level
The Art of Craving
Acqua Alta
Two Travelers
Soot Island
The Kearny Marshes
Anniversary
Accessible Bliss
Orphic Night
Bellosguardo
Iris
Ascension

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Fleet River traces the journey of two travelers through landscapes earthly and otherworldly, following the river as it turns, dips underground, then reemerges unexpectedly as they fall in love with the world, as though for the first time. Mimicking the river's shifting course, the poems revise themselves as the book moves forward, turning against their own best discoveries, proving that the pilgrims' journey is less the discovery of love than the re-creation, poem by poem, of love's possibilities.
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Poetry
American Poetry
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Other American Poetry
American poetry->21st century
American poetry->Male authors
Poetry
American Poetry
21st Century American Poetry
Other American Poetry
American poetry->21st century
American poetry->Male authors

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