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Erratic Facts
About this book
"Clear and lucid" poems from a US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner who "journeys through the landscape of memory, consciousness, loss, and love" (
The Washington Post).
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Kay Ryan is acclaimed for her highly relatable, deeply insightful poems. Erratic Facts is her first new collection since the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning The Best of It, and it is animated with her signature swift, clearheaded, lyrical style.
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At once witty and melancholy, playful and heartfelt, Ryan examines enormous subjectsâexistence, consciousness, love, lossâin compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance. Her sly rhymes and strong cadences convey both musicality and wisdom. While these pieces are composed of the same brevity and vitality that have characterized her singular voice over the course of more than twenty years, her imagination is more eccentric and daring than ever. Erratic Facts solidifies Ryan's place at the pinnacle of American poetry.
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"Read a poem once and take in its crisp rhythms, subtle rhymes, and arresting images. Read it again and detect its hide-and-seek metaphors and meanings. . . . [Ryan's] quantum poems pose resonant questions of physics and metaphysics, of attentiveness and caring on scales intimate and universal." â Booklist
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Kay Ryan is acclaimed for her highly relatable, deeply insightful poems. Erratic Facts is her first new collection since the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning The Best of It, and it is animated with her signature swift, clearheaded, lyrical style.
Â
At once witty and melancholy, playful and heartfelt, Ryan examines enormous subjectsâexistence, consciousness, love, lossâin compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance. Her sly rhymes and strong cadences convey both musicality and wisdom. While these pieces are composed of the same brevity and vitality that have characterized her singular voice over the course of more than twenty years, her imagination is more eccentric and daring than ever. Erratic Facts solidifies Ryan's place at the pinnacle of American poetry.
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"Read a poem once and take in its crisp rhythms, subtle rhymes, and arresting images. Read it again and detect its hide-and-seek metaphors and meanings. . . . [Ryan's] quantum poems pose resonant questions of physics and metaphysics, of attentiveness and caring on scales intimate and universal." â Booklist
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Also by Kay Ryan
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- NEW ROOMS
- ON THE NATURE OF UNDERSTANDING
- WHY EXPLAIN THE PRECISE BY WAY OF THE LESS PRECISE?
- SHIP IN A BOTTLE
- MONK STYLE
- DRY THINGS
- ERASURE
- AN INSTRUMENT WITH KEYS
- BRIEF REAL THINGS
- HOMAGE TO JOSEPH BRODSKY
- DOUBLE FLOOR
- FIZZ
- BREATHER
- ALL YOUR HORSES
- ALL YOU DID
- PUTTING THINGS IN PROPORTION
- PLAYACTING
- NIGHTINGALE FLOOR
- TOKEN LOSS
- SALVATION
- FOOLâS ERRANDS
- THE PAW OF A CAT
- VENICE
- TREADING WATER
- FATAL FLAW
- SPLITTING ICE
- CRISS CROSSES
- LITTLE DOTS
- DRAGONâS TEETH
- SHOOT THE MOON
- A KIND OF LIFE
- BUNCHED CLOTHS
- THE MAIN DIFFICULTY OF WATER WHEELS
- WHY IT IS HARD TO START
- MUSICAL CHAIRS
- SOCK
- MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE
- THINGS THAT HAVE STAYED IN POSITION
- METAL
- BURNING TENT
- TRACERS
- TRIPPED
- THOSE PLACES
- A TRENCH LIKE THAT
- ALMOST
- VELVET
- DYNAMIC SCALING
- MEMORY TABLE
- NATURE STUDY: SPOTS
- MISER TIME
- MORE OF THE SAME
- THE FIRST OF NEVER
- ALBUM
- THE OBSOLETION OF A LANGUAGE
- PARTY SHIP
- BLAST
- STILL START
- EGGS
- PINHOLE
- IN CASE OF COMPLETE REVERSAL
- STRUCK TREE
- ERRATIC FACTS
- Acknowledgements
- Back Cover
