Weather Eye Open :: Poems.

The windmill's labor is contingent upon the weather, upon what air masses, at any given time, overlie its landscape. Anticipatory in mood, Weather Eye Open adopts the emblem of the windmill, seeking what Merleau-Ponty calls the "inspiration and expiration of Being." The windmill serve...

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1. Verfasser: Gridley, Sarah
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: CA : University of California Press, 2005.
Schriftenreihe:New California poetry.
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Zusammenfassung:The windmill's labor is contingent upon the weather, upon what air masses, at any given time, overlie its landscape. Anticipatory in mood, Weather Eye Open adopts the emblem of the windmill, seeking what Merleau-Ponty calls the "inspiration and expiration of Being." The windmill serves as analogue to the perceiving subject, to the poet, whose consciousness, though rooted and partial, is yet always receptive to being energized, turned. Like open sails, the perceiver ushers the weather indoors, converting one motion, the wind, to another, the grinding burrstones. The poems in this collection pur.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (118 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780520938250
0520938259
0520242890
9780520242890
0520242939
9780520242937
9786612357930
6612357932