Balance As Belief (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) [Paperback]

Wyatt Prunty (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1989 | Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction

In Wyatt Prunty's new collection of poems, people either keep their balance or, doubting it, tip and fall. A small girl struggles to ride her bike among older children already 'stable as little gyros.' Ice-skating with friends, a boy suddenly drops from sight, and drowns. The poet of Paterson stands at the edge of his Jersey waterfall and knows that 'good balance is belief.' Poising and counterpoising themselves in settings at once fixed and erosive, the people in these poems move through 'one long revisionary river that curls back against itself, as if the only way to move ahead was by deflecting back.'

Editorial Reviews

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1957
The Actuarial Wife
The Bed
The Blue Umbrella
The Circle Route
The Convined Bird
Crosswords
Doing The Numbers
Dr. Williams' Garden
Driving Out
Falling Through The Ice
The Fear
For Don, Who Slept Through The War
Good Buses
Good-bye
The Hand-me-down
Home
The Lake House
Late Days
The Lean And The Fat
Learning The Bicycle
Locals And Others
Memorial Day
The Name
The Only Child
Playing By Ear
Recalling Summers
Rio
The Shortwave Radio
The Starlings
To Be Sung On The Fourth Of July
Water
The Wild Horses
Wild Others
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (August 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801838940
• ISBN-13: 978-0801838941
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,508,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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