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Summary: Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan's third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan's poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Sometimes gaudily ornamental, sometimes Shaker-plain, here is verse that is compact on the page and expansive in the mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1996
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Contents: The Niagara River -- Home to roost -- Carrying a ladder -- Sharks' teeth -- Felix Crow -- Weak forces -- The elephant in the room -- A ball rolls on a point -- The best of it -- Chinese foot chart -- Shipwreck -- The other shoe -- Atlas -- He lit a fire with Icicles -- Rats' tails -- Added significance -- Chop -- Desert reservoirs -- Hailstorm -- Expectations -- Green Hills -- Rubbing lamps --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005