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Missing the Moon

Missing the Moon

Missing the Moon Paperback - 2014

by Ramke, Bin

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Richmond. 2014. October 2014. Omnidawn Publishing. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781632430007. 6 x 9�. 120 pages. paperback. keywords: American Literature Poetry. DESCRIPTION - Scientific elegies of ambition and failure from this esteemed poet Attempts to reach the moon, metaphorically and otherwise, are an ancient element of human imagination. With intrusions from mathematics and science, these poems are elegiac celebrations of various ambitions that miss the mark, but matter anyway. The poems sometimes center on events in the life of the poet or members of his family; sometimes on the geography, geology, and the histories accrued by local communities, human and otherwise; sometimes they center on historical figures reimagined - from Giacinto Scelsi to Alan Turing. But these poems are always about boundaries and barriers, crossed sometimes, ignored at peril. They are about distances that must be travelled. �The poems in Bin Ramke's new book enact the ceaseless struggle between containment and flow, garden and river, body and time. Fascinating as moving water, these poems allow �particulate sand its say.' They do what Alfred North Whitehead said literature should do: they embody what they indicate.' Rae Armantrout, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. inventory #42125
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  • Title Missing the Moon
  • Author Ramke, Bin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 120
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Omnidawn
  • Publication date 2014
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 42125
  • ISBN 9781632430007 / 1632430002
  • Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.09 x 6.04 x 0.29 in (23.09 x 15.34 x 0.74 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014013749
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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From the publisher

Attempts to reach the moon, metaphorically and otherwise, are an ancient element of human imagination. With intrusions from mathematics and science, these poems are elegiac celebrations of various ambitions that miss the mark, but matter anyway. The poems sometimes center on events in the life of the poet or members of his family; sometimes on the geography, geology, and the histories accrued by local communities, human and otherwise; sometimes they center on historical figures reimagined--from Giacinto Scelsi to Alan Turing. But these poems are always about boundaries and barriers, crossed sometimes, ignored at peril. They are about distances that must be travelled.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 07/01/2014, Page 93
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/15/2014, Page 0

About the author

BIN RAMKE grew up in Texas and Louisiana and spent his youth in the bayous and marshes among Cajun and German-immigrant relatives. Author of over 10 books of poetry, his first book won the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He teaches at the University of Denver where he holds the Phipps Chair in English and is an Evans Professor, and where he edited the Denver Quarterly for 17 years. He teaches on occasion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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