LoginWeather Eye Open: Poems (New California Poetry)
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The windmill's labor is contingent upon the weather, upon what air masses, at any given time, overlie its landscape. Anticipatory in mood, Weather Eye Open adopts the emblem of the windmill, seeking what Merleau-Ponty calls the "inspiration and expiration of Being." The windmill serves as analogue to the perceiving subject, to the poet, whose consciousness, though rooted and partial, is yet always receptive to being energized, turned. Like open sails, the perceiver ushers the weather indoors, converting one motion, the wind, to another, the grinding burrstones. The poems in this collection pursue a similar transmutatio
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
Release date: 1 April 2005
ISBN-10 : 0520242939 | ISBN-13: 9780520242937
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Release date: 1 April 2005
ISBN-10 : 0520242939 | ISBN-13: 9780520242937
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mika_ added this to a list 6 years, 7 months ago
Read in 2017 (59 books items)"Excerpt from "Weather Eye Open" "what boat unloads your night? Why do the waves keep you in their shattered cloak? Eyes each upon you creaking pilot, pilot, pilot?" Excerpt from "Etude" "Any weather can induce my love. The morning opens in the flurry of waking." "
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