Thinking the World Visible

by Valerie Wohlfeld; Foreword by James Dickey

• ISBN13: 9780300060201
• ISBN10: 0300060203
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1994-07-27
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Collects the author's recent poems

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Notes of Dictation for a Formal Lecture concerning a Concise History of the Sea	p. 3
A Need of Lime	p. 6
Unweathered Glass	p. 6
A Circuitous Route of Wings	p. 7
Scavenged Bracelets	p. 8
Spring's Apprentice	p. 9
Season's End	p. 10
A Voice from Arid Riverbeds	p. 10
Clove Lime Fruit Glass	p. 11
Sand Verbena, Sea Lily	p. 12
Sea	p. 13
A Prayer of Baritoned and Salted Air	p. 19
A Compendium of Plenum	p. 19
Orison of the Body Undone	p. 20
Soliloquies of Unease	p. 21
Apropos of Scientists and Snow	p. 22
To Disclose a Doctrinaire of Rose Sugar	p. 23
Charms	p. 24
Snow	p. 24
Rain	p. 25
Ashes and Cinders of Burnt Things	p. 26
The Uccello	p. 27
Partial Pages from a Guidebook of Travel to Be Found among the Lost Notes of Copernicus	p. 29
That Which Is Fugitive, That Which Is Medicinally Sweet or Alterable to Gold, That Which Is Substantiated by Unscientific Means	p. 32
Thinking the World Visible	p. 35
His Nest of Cattle Hair and Wool	p. 35
A Beakful of Robes and Glass Stones	p. 36
The Shadow Bird's Golden House	p. 37
The Philosophy of Anatomy	p. 40
Trinkets	p. 44
The Recondite Night	p. 46
Lyric Task	p. 48
Hayfield Wintered Black	p. 49
Myriapod	p. 49
Red Cedar	p. 50
The Spots on the Moon	p. 51
Suet	p. 51
Whorls	p. 52
Eclipse	p. 52
Mulberry	p. 53
Notes	p. 55
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