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Out of the Woods
Contributor(s): Bolt, Thomas (Author), Merrill, James (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0300044682     ISBN-13: 9780300044683
Publisher: Yale University Press
OUR PRICE: $27.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1989
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 88030313
Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
Physical Information: 0.29" H x 5.51" W x 9.02" L (0.26 lbs) 80 pages
Features: Limited Edition
Review Citations: Library Journal 04/15/1989
Publishers Weekly 02/24/1989
 
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Publisher Description:
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 worldMemory pertainsIn bald things, Of promises skipped over, violenceOr accidents of kissing.Read within the deep patinaOf the old stumpOf a shainsawed black walnutIts circularHistory from sex to ruin; Look whereCracked and spattered chunks of cold quartzStuck in mudGlitter up from a dull hill.Downhill, the wrecked car: A punched in windshieldSags whole, An afterimage of collision, Brilliant with sky.
 
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