Pearly Everlasting

by Thomas Reiter

Book Overview

In Pearly Everlasting, Thomas Reiter crafts authentic lives, both autobiographical and fictional, historical and contemporary, across a wide range of locales, maintaining a steady focus on the lore of occupations while revealing the speakers' crucial connection to the natural world. These poems come in earthtones--the colors of strenuous labor; dried flowers from a midwestern prairie; a centuries-old bone newly uncovered; the surf and sky,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807125431
• ISBN13: 9780807125434
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 73 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.0"