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Sea Snails on a Black Chow’s Tongue

Sea Snails on a Black Chow’s Tongue

Sea Snails on a Black Chow's Tongue

Keith Harvey

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iUniverse
Año de edición:
2009
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781440178856
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At the conclusion of Keith Harvey’s novel, Cave Gossip, the protagonist recites an aphorism: being in being is. Sea Snails on a Black Chow’s Tongue explores the meaning of this aphorism. The poems in this collection, then, deal with man’s basic aloneness in being; a castaway, if you will, in his own existence.Poet He sat and readhis primal poemson a wooden stoolcarved from pine.His lips purpledas he scannedprimordial wordsand his tongueshadowedlike a chow’s.

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