Through One Tear: Poems
by Nobles, Edward
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0892552271
- ISBN 13
- 9780892552276
- Seller
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Lake Huntington, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Persea Books, 1997. 87 pp. Author's first book. Nobles published Bluestone Walk in 2000. His poetry has appeared in Agni, Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gettysburgh Review, Paris Review, Pequod, and Volt. On the jacket Paul Klee's The Idea of Firs (Der Idee der Tannen) 1917. 'Edward Nobles poetry is distinguished by its astonishing precision, its careful concentration of the eye on the object, and the tautness of the rhythms.'--Marjorie Perloff. 'Here, / I can know no thing and be / pure longing, a fish, thrashing stopped, for it is dead. Or I will be // transformed, a god of fish, / and each shall before me lie / outstretched on a golden plate, / surrounded by springs of plastic / (perfect through time) and a slice / of lemon, for its bitterness.'--from ''The God of Fish.''. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Veery Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000415
- Title
- Through One Tear: Poems
- Author
- Nobles, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0892552271
- ISBN 13
- 9780892552276
- Publisher
- Persea Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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