| Publication |
New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
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| Description |
viii, 68pBlack Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
The poet examines the moral and psychological fetters that we impose on ourselves and that are imposed on us, as well as the possibility of achieving some meaningful freedom from both. Speak low weighs the human cost of ambition, desire and risk. It is a record of a powerful vision that continues to illuminate what it has meant, and can mean, to be alive and human in the world.
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| Contents |
Speak low
Southern cross
Mirror, window, mirror
Conquest
Rubicon
Captivity
Lighting the lamps
To drown in honey
Gold on parchment
In perfect world
Detachment
The river in motion and in stillness
Happiness
Distortion
Porcelain
The damned
Directions from here
Night song
Storm
Topaz
The moonflowers
Last empire
Volition
Reciprocity
Now in our most ordinary voices
Naming the stars
Beautiful dreamer
The plains of Troy
The Centaur
A little moonlight
Landfall
Living together
Cloud country
Fair is whatever the gods call fair
The raft
Sterling
Husk
Until there's nothing, just the sea, a sea of leaves
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| Standard Number |
9780374532161 Pb.
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