"The river is largely implicit here," writes Linda Gregerson about her acre of woods. Whether open to view or underground, her river maps communal fate: everything that lives is its direct dependent. The river can also bring infection; it is a branching repository for toxicity. It carries news, much of which is a litany of harm -- recklessness, malice, failures of heart, and failures of attention -- but the poems in WATERBORNE somehow extract from adversity a syntax of devotion. "The past / that has a place for us will know ...
Read More
"The river is largely implicit here," writes Linda Gregerson about her acre of woods. Whether open to view or underground, her river maps communal fate: everything that lives is its direct dependent. The river can also bring infection; it is a branching repository for toxicity. It carries news, much of which is a litany of harm -- recklessness, malice, failures of heart, and failures of attention -- but the poems in WATERBORNE somehow extract from adversity a syntax of devotion. "The past / that has a place for us will know us by / our scattered wake," Gregerson also writes. The resilient tercets in which these poems are written might themselves be thought of as a scattered wake - the luminous record of movement through various lives. These stirring poems can be considered tools for staging daily rescues from oblivion. Their occasions are diverse - a barn fire, a wounded deer, a child's determined struggle with a bicycle - but their instinct is always to wrest from the impure world a vernacular of praise. As Mark Strand has written, "Linda Gregerson's poetry is among the very best being written."
Read Less
Add this copy of Waterborne: Poems to cart. $14.50, good condition, Sold by Bookfeathers LLC rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lewisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
VG in VG+ jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover with blue paper over boards and blue quarter-binding, in brown and black jacket with Jan van Eyck artwork, 8vo. 66pp. Endnotes. VG/VG+. Pencilled notes erased from several poems, now all clean and unmamred save for two ink-underlined lines p.36 (in "Pass Over"); 1 1/4" crease from former dogear upper corner p.4, away from text. Some dye transfer from lower fron board and spine cloth toinner side of jacket with no associated effects. Mild rubbing along upper rear edge and lower rear corner of jacket. Else clean, tight, and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart.
Add this copy of Waterborne: Poems to cart. $16.48, like new condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Like New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Related ephemera included (a photograph of author).
Add this copy of Waterborne: Poems to cart. $103.34, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Add this copy of Waterborne to cart. $10.22, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin.
Add this copy of Waterborne to cart. $17.00, like new condition, Sold by Murphy-Brookfield Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Iowa City, IA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin.
Add this copy of Waterborne: Poems to cart. $19.80, good condition, Sold by Dotcom liquidators / dc1 rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fort Worth, TX, UNITED STATES.
Add this copy of Waterborne: Poems to cart. $21.05, very good condition, Sold by Daedalus Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Add this copy of Waterborne to cart. $32.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Add this copy of Waterborne: Poems to cart. $36.53, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Add this copy of Waterborne to cart. $37.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with spine lightly sunned. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Elena by the author on the title page. Poetry.
