Poetry Comes Up Where It Can - 9780874806441

Poetry Comes Up Where It CanAuthor(s): Brian Swann\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Utah Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: University of Utah Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9780874806441, 978-0874806441\nSynopsis\nWalk with this book to find some of the unexpected places where poetry can flourish. Discover poetry growing \""where it can,\"" in the infinite and in the microscopic: in the \""star-gazing, star-thinking, star-dreaming...Milky Way,\"" and \""in minute invisible architectures...of snowflake sculpture reality;\"" in mountain passes where \""gold leaves spill and spin like doubloons,\"" and in the grizzly, \""hunger-hearted and ugly, a horrible beauty, / a hairy breath of berry-laced and blood-hot red, / hunter and hunted, and hated;\"" in the city where \""birds...survive to sing about sun- / light straining through the gritty breath / of New York,\"" and in wilderness that has \""no nakedness,\"" that is \""lovely because it is empty.\""\n\nThe poems in this anthology first appeared i.