Elephant Rocks
Poems
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Word Count
24,000 words, Guess
Page Count
96 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7874728M
- ISBN-139780802135254
- ISBN-100802135250
- OCLC Control Number33441042
- OCLC Control Numberelephantrocks00kayr
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number95042668
- LibraryThing618035
- Goodreads425380
Classifications
- LCC
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3568.Y38 E43 1996
Description
*Elephant Rocks*, Kay Ryan’s third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan’s poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Sometimes gaudily ornamental, sometimes Shaker-plain, here is verse that is compact on the page and expansive in the mind.
First Sentence
In tigers, zebras, and other stripped creatures, any casual posture plays one beautiful set of lines against another: herringbones and arrows appear and disappear; chevrons widen and narrow.
Description
"Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan's third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Appealing to a wide range of readers, Ryan's work reaches out both to those who wish to be invited into a poem and to those who insist on being persistently intrigued." "Above all what distinguishes Kay Ryan as a poet is her flamboyant imagination and large ambition. She has embarked on a major poetic career, and this book confirms her as one of the most distinctive and attractive voices to come along in years."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Grove Press poetry series
Other Editions
- Elephant Rocks
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