Movable Islands : : Poems by Debora Greger / / Debora Greger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Greger, Debora,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 87
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (78 p.)

"If salvaging truth becomes difficult in cultures which keep rebuilding and changing their pasts or accept annually the repetitions of natural renewal, Debora Greger's Movable Islands demonstrates that it can still be done successfully."--Jerome Mazzaro, The Hudson ReviewOriginally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I. -- The First Movement -- The Armorer's Daughter -- Fainted Desert -- The Coloring of Experience -- Letter to My Sister -- Depth of Field -- Pentimento -- The Light Passages -- Physical Properties -- Bad Debts -- From This Angle -- Body of Work -- What Dances -- Going to Sleep -- The Palace at 4 A.M. -- Long-Distance Swimming -- Part II. -- Grisaille -- Sleeping Beauty -- Patches of Sky -- Trappings -- The Invention of Routine -- White Fields -- The Painter's Model -- Fall -- The Man on the Bed -- Not You -- To Make You Well -- Sea Change -- Closing -- Part III. -- Night Freight -- Calibrations -- Myopia -- Fictions -- Any Story -- After Iceland, William Morris Dreams of Panama -- Business -- Companion to Ships and the Sea -- Natural Forces -- The Life of the Remittance Man -- Knowing -- Crossing the Plains -- A Second or Third Dimension -- Bearings -- Field Glass -- Hard Water