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<p><p><I>Capacity</I>, the extraordinary new collection from the award-winning poet James McMichael, deliberates an earth that supplies what people need to live. Ocean, land, animate bodies, shelter, thoughts, feelings, talk, sex--each is addressed at the pace of someone dense with wonder's resistance to take for granted even the smallest or most obvious parts of existence.<p><p><B>James McMichael</B> is the author of five books of poetry, most recently <I>The World at Large</I>&#58; <I>New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996. </I>Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize.<p><p><p><B>A National Book Award Finalist</B><p><p>A book of 1930s photographs makes an overture. Then, up from the center of the earth, Capacity surfaces on the North Atlantic. It is pulled southeasterly toward the place its language comes from, so dense with wonder at what it meets along the way that it takes nothing for granted. Obsessed with the small, these poems address one by one the things that people need to live. Land, water, sky, food, shelter, thought, talk, sex, and generation&#58; Any person is capacitated in the measure that these things are th

Author

McMichael, James, 1939-

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374118907

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities