"The British Countryside in Pictures"
from James McMichael's
Capacity
from James McMichael's
Capacity
James McMichael:
James McMichael is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. (Photo by Cindy Love)
About Capacity:
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: Any person is capacitated in the measure that these things are there as his or her world. Capacity supposes that how this world goes is worthy of being sung.
by James McMichael
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
New York
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Selected books available by James McMichael:Capacity — Hardcover
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