The River Twice: Poems

The River Twice: PoemsAn impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award Taking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. The world presented in these poems is a fluid one in which so much including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself seems protean, as the

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award

Taking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. The world presented in these poems is a fluid one in which so much--including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself--seems protean, as the speaker's previously familiar understanding of the self and the larger systems around it gives way. Kathleen Graber's poems wander widely, from the epistolary to the essayistic, shuffling the remarkable and unremarkable flotsam of contemporary life. One thought, one memory, one bit of news flows into the next. Yet, in a century devoted to exponentially increasing speed, The River Twice unfolds at the slow pace of a river bend. While the warm light of ideas and things flashes upon the surface, that which endures remains elusive--something glimpsed only for an instant before it is gone.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 09/10/2019
ISBN: 9780691193212
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/16/2019