Pleasure Tree (Pittsburgh Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Wilson, Robley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822936356 ISBN 13: 9780822936350

Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 1990

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Book by Wilson, Robley

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After Love
Against Violence
Amnesty
And You Think
Between The Men And The Women: 1
Between The Men And The Women: 2
The Bird Pursues The Bee And Kisses It
Blake's Tyger, Wilson's Cat
The Boredom That Comes Of Loneliness
Bridesmaid
Byzantium Again
Company Cafeteria
Defoliation
The Diver
Dogs
Envoi
Fame
A Fear Of Crowds
Giraffe
I Wish In The City Of Your Heart
In Early Morning Traffic
Keys
Leaving The Body
Lines For Later Anniversaries
Lines For Suzanne
Love%love%love
The Lovers
The Man With The Blind Wife
The Mechanical Cow
The Mornings I Oversleep
My Son, Drawing A Picture
Notes For A Vigil
The Parable Of The Cat
The Parting
A Pastoral For Institutions
The Persistence Of First Love
Pets
A Pleasure Tree
Renting
Say Girls In Shoe Ads: I Go For A Man Who's Tall!
Shadows
The Smokers
The Sniper In The Tower
Sunday Night
A Tapestry, A Poem
Thinking Of The Moon
Tiresias
Transmigrations
Two Men
A Valediction
The Weekend Away
What You See
When We Are Old
Yankee Poet
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Publishers Weekly:

Challenging and dense, Wilson's ( Kingdoms of the Ordinary ) collection tackles the grand themes of love, death and violence, and the inextricable link between human existence and the forces of the natural world. Here, nature is at once destructive and redemptive, and ultimately miraculous, as depicted in the title poem: "A marvel: / Seven apples have not fallen, / but hang in these March rains / like brown jewels. . . ." It is this awesome, transformative power of the universe, Wilson infers, that "reaches through" to our daily lives and makes them bearable. Even ordinary kitchen floorboards "shine from within," and, from "under layers of filth," cheap furnishings "glow as if an eternal / source projected them / from the center of time." A master of imagery and metaphor whose voice is alternately playful and portentous, Wilson is above all concerned with the persistence of the human spirit in the face of mortality, predatory relationships and the underlying savagery of an unknowable universe--and with "how from each wreckage we rebuild ourselves."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0822936356
• ISBN 13: 9780822936350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 75