At Passages

By Michael Palmer

Book Overview

At Passages is Michael Palmer's first book of poetry in seven years--and his first book with New Directions. A collection in seven parts, At Passages explores the "hum of the possible-to-say," and, as its title suggests, delves particularly into the paths and meetings of language and meaning: "as much the unseen / as the visible / As much what has disappeared / as what remains."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811212947
• ISBN13: 9780811212946
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Significant Nexus of Dicourses

Michael Palmer's poems seem to me use the best strategies of language poetry in service of the romantic lyric.This book is both Bread and Wafer (as Anais Nin put in a chapter of "Ladders to Fire") to me--it feeds the spiritual and intellectual heart and also satisfies the physical desire of real bodied pleasure.