Author

Publication

2004 - Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

16,250 words, Guess

Page Count

65 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing195202

Classifications

  • DDC811/.6
  • LCCPS3618.E4354 C58 2004

Description

The Clerk's Tale pays homage not only to Chaucer but to the clerks' brotherhood of service in the mall, where "the light is bright and artificial, / yet not dissimilar to that found in a Gothic cathedral." The fifty poems in this book are exquisitely restrained, shot though with a longing for permanence, from the quasi-monastic life of two salesmen at Brooks Brothers to the poignant lingering light of a Miami dusk to the weight of geography on an empty Minnesota farm.--From publisher description.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The clerk's tale: poemsHoughton Mifflin2004-01-01

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