Trace Elements"Barbara Jordan, whose first book Channel won the 1989 Barnard New Women Poets Prize, writes poetry that is richly textured, simultaneously rigorous and elegant. Her work explores scientific and imaginative models of the universe and our place in it. This, her second collection, examines residues of meaning and mystery - in history, nature, belief systems - from a place of abandonment or skepticism. What can we know? How do we order knowledge? What are twentieth-century versions of the Fall? Jordan investigates trace elements, like clues that might be followed back to some overarching source."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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AMANITA AMMONITES Barbara Jordan bloom blue bones branch breath butterflies called carried child clear climb close cloud dark death debris deep desire distance door dreams drop earth edge emptiness entered everything falling father flower followed forest fossil glass Goethe's going gone green ground grow hawk head hills hold human imagine insect keep kind knowledge landscape language leaf leaves lift light lily living look lost matter means memory mind moon mountain move night obstacle once path pine Poems poetry POETS pond remember Review scene secret seemed shade shadows shape shell side silence snow soft standing stars step stones stream sunset sweet things thought tiny touch TRACE ELEMENTS trail trees turn walk walls wilderness wind window wings wish woman woods