From An Explanation of America: LAIR Robert Pinsky Inexhaustible, delicate, as if Without source or medium, daylight Undoes the mind; the infinite, Empty actual is too bright, Scattering to where the road Whispers, through a mile of woods ...Later, how quiet the house is: Dusk-like and refined, The sweet Phoebe-note Piercing from the trees; The calm globe of the morning, Things to read or to write Ranged on a table; the brain A dark, stubborn current that breathes Blood, a deaf wadding, The hands feeding it paper And sensations of wood or metal On its own terms. Trying to read I persist a while, finish the recognition By my breath of a dead giant's breath-- Stayed by the space of a rhythm, Witnessing the blue gulf of the air.
- ISBN10 0856353043
- ISBN13 9780856353048
- Publish Date 1 January 1995 (first published 1 July 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 September 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 76
- Language English