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Goest / Cole Swensen.
- Title
- Goest / Cole Swensen.
- Author
- Swensen, Cole, 1955-
- Publication
- Farmington, Me. : Alice James Books, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3569.W384 G64 2004 | Off-site |
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- Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
- Description
- 63 P.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Treating subjects from landscape to sculpture to a 19th century technical encyclopedia, the author presents poems centered on light, glass, mirrors, flame, ice, mercury, and things transparent, evanescent, or impossible to grasp.
- Subject
- American poetry > 21st century
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Of white. The girl who never rained -- Others -- Five landscapes -- The future of sculpture -- White cities. 2. A history of the incandescent. Lacrymae vitreae -- The invention of the night-watch -- The invention of streetlights -- The first lightbulb -- The history of artificial ice -- The invention of the hydrometer -- The invention of the mirror -- The invention of the weathervane -- The invention of the automata -- What the ventriloquists said -- The origin of Ombres Chinoises -- The game of balls and cups -- The discovery of Bologna Stone -- Things to do with Naphtha -- Of Manganese and other things -- The lives of Saltpeter -- The invention of etched, engraved & incised glass --The exploration of fluor-spar -- The invention of the pencil -- The development of natural gas. 3. On white. Razed cities -- The future of white -- Five landscapes.
- ISBN
- 1882295439
- LCCN
- ^^2003024339
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library