Correspondence [Paperback]

“Correspondence,” writes Mark Doty, “is a fresh accomplishment, swift with feeling and intelligence, the work of a restless critical mind mapping its way toward a way to bear the weight of love.” Kathleen Graber’s debut book takes us on a trip through history and time, varying her subjects with speed and seamlessness, to a dizzying, dazzling effect. From the Philadelphia Eagles to Cornell’s boxes, from a fertility clinic to Daguerre’s prints, from Kafka to running over two cats, from Annette Benning to Marianne Moore, Kathleen Graber’s poems embrace what her inquisitive mind traverses, ensnaring past and present, familiar and foreign, soulful and scientific, in a celebration of chaos that is generous and healing.” Winner of the 2005 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by Bob HicokBetween Laurelton & Locust Manor
Terra Incognita
Romantic Museum
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
After a Student, 15, Declares He Will Renounce the World for God
The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting: L is for Laburnum
The Off Season
Equivalent Difference
The Language of Bees
Oracle, With Lines from Montale's La Farandola Dei Fanciulli
The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting: E is for Elegies, or Enough to be Counted
Anniversary
Mysterium Cosmographicum
Physics
Das Passagen-Werk
The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting: T is for the Twofold
In the Museum of Dreams
From Fragments
Thinking of the Summer Solstice
The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting: H is for the Hidden
Another Postcard
The Horse Latitudes
Pastoral
The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting: E is for Eros
Beyond Saying
Notes