Fathering the Map : New and Selected Later Poems

Name: Fathering the Map : New and Selected Later Poems
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Fathering the MapNew and Selected Later Poems\nAuthor(s): Robert Pack\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226644059, 978-0226644059\nSynopsis\n\""Poetry,\"" wrote Wordsworth, \""is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all Science.\"" Robert Pack's new book is a heady mixture of the finer spirit. A selection from his last five books, along with a collection of new poems, Fathering the Map takes us from the personal reflections distilled in the lyrics of Waking to My Name [tel] to the worldly reckonings of Inheritance [tel] and back again. In the dramatic monologues of Faces in a Single Tree [tel], in the narrative of a wayward life from womb to double ending in Clayfield Rejoices, Clayfield Laments [tel], in a cosmic tour conducted by the physicist Heinz Pagels with Before It Vanishes [tel], Pack has fashioned poems of intimate ""