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A new collection by the acclaimed poet Kathleen Graber for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets **Note:** This is a simultaneous release. Cloth edition: $45.00, ISBN: 9780691193205. **An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award** Taking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, __The River Twice__ is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. The world presented in these poems is a fluid one in which so much—including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself—seems protean, as the speaker's previously familiar understanding of the self and the larger systems around it gives way. Kathleen Graber’s poems wander widely, from the epistolary to the essayistic, shuffling the remarkable and unremarkable flotsam of contemporary life. One thought, one memory, one bit of news flows into the next. Yet, in a century devoted to exponentially increasing speed, __The River Twice__ unfolds at the slow pace of a river bend. While the warm light of ideas and things flashes upon the surface, that which endures remains elusive—something glimpsed o
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- Author
- Graber, Kathleen
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691193212
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Poetry, Literary Fiction
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