Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems by Gibbons Ruark (English) Paper

Description: Passing Through Customs by Gibbons Ruark This collection of poems is a retrospective of 30 years of Gibbons Ruarks work, arranged in clusters of image, feeling, and thought. The reader moves from two coastal poems, to poems about family and friends, through shadows and solitudes of elegies, into homages to the saving grace of art. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Gibbons Ruark is a poetic naturalist, bending close to his subject to report with precision the complexity of beauty we overlook in our haste. A truly imaginative writer as well, however, Ruark gives back to us not merely mirrored documentation but reflections fully colored by his sight and his spirit; like water and sky, both subject and poet are illuminated in his poems. Passing Through Customs, a retrospective of thirty years work, is arranged in clusters of image, feeling, and thought, like runs of a particular kind of music. The reader moves from two coastal poems, years apart on the calendar of the poets career, to poems about family and friends, through shadows and solitudes of elegies, into sunlit homages to the saving grace of art. There are evocations of Ruarks beloved and strife-torn Ireland, others of Italys bounty, portraits of now missed faces, and the abiding presence of his wife. This gallery of words, so strongly affecting, steadies and moves us at once. Passing Through Customs leads us into the reaches of Ruarks sensibility, certainly, but also through inherited forms and ceremonies enriching to us all. Author Biography Gibbons Ruarks poems have been previously collected in Rescue the Perishing, Keeping Company, Reeds, and A Program for Survival. A member of the English faculty at the University of Delaware since 1968, he lives with his wife in Landenberg, Pennsylvania. Details ISBN0807123625 Author Gibbons Ruark Short Title PASSING THROUGH CUSTOMS Language English ISBN-10 0807123625 ISBN-13 9780807123621 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Year 1999 Imprint Louisiana State University Press Subtitle New and Selected Poems Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Baton Rouge Residence DE, US Birth 1941 DOI 10.1604/9780807123621 AU Release Date 1999-02-01 NZ Release Date 1999-02-01 UK Release Date 1999-02-01 Pages 112 Publisher Louisiana State University Press Publication Date 1999-02-28 Audience General US Release Date 1999-02-28 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:118519484;

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