Poems
：Poems
( Princeton Legacy Library )
Publication subTitle ：Poems
Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library
Author： Feinman Alvin;;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781400860616
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691014692
Subject： I Literature;I106.2 Poetry
Keyword： 文学
Language： ENG
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Description
This volume of Alvin Feinman's poems presents a highly praised earlier work, Preambles and Other Poems, combined with more recent poems. Of Preambles Allen Tate wrote, "This is a remarkable first book. . . . There is an acute and subtle sensibility at work. 'Pilgrim Heights' is one of the best poems by an American that I have seen in many years.' "
From "Pilgrim Heights"
Something, something, the heart here
Misses, something it knows it needs
Unable to bless--the wind passes;
A swifter shadow sweeps the reeds,
The heart a colder contrast brushes.
So this fool, face-forward, belly
Pressed among the rushes, plays out
His pulse to the dune's long slant
Down from blue to bluer element,
The bold encompassing drink of air
And namelessness, a length compound
Of want and oneness the shore's mumbling
Distantly tells--something a wing's
Dry pivot stresses, carved
Through barrens of stillness and glare.
Originally published in 1990.
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