Swarm

by Jorie Graham

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"Swarm", Jorie Graham's eighth volume of poetry, is a book-length sequence which sets out to encounter destiny, Eros and law. The poet confronts a fundamental problem: whom to address, who there still is to address. She negotiates passionately with those powers that human beings feel themselves subject to: God, matter, law, custom, the force of love. To swarm is to leave a hive, a home, a stable sense of one's body, a hierarchy of values, in an attempt, apart, to found new forms that will hold. Key players in Graham's drama are the first person, the enjambment, the phrase,...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781857544954
  • Publish Date 28 September 2000
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 128
  • Language English