Out of the Woods (Yale Series of Younger Poets) de Thomas Bolt

Out of the Woods: Yale Series of Younger Poets

Thomas Bolt

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 sep 1989

The winning volume in the 1988 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Out of the Woods by Thomas Bolt. As James Merrill, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, has said: "Here is an up-to-date pastoral: wrecked cars, glades of debris, polluted streams, all gravely held in Thomas Bolt's unflinching gaze. 'I had found,' he writes, 'the secret center of America.' Given this wealth of evidence, its bleakness and sparkle, we can almost bring ourselves to believe him."

A Hill in Virginia

In this rude world

Memory pertains

In bald things,

Of promises skipped over, violence

Or accidents of kissing.

Read within the deep patina

Of the old stump

Of a shainsawed black walnut

Its circular

History from sex to ruin;

Look where