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Graham, Jorie, 1950- author.

The dream of the unified field : selected poems, 1974-1994 / Jorie Graham.

First edition.

Hopewell, New Jersey : The Ecco Press, [1995]

©1995

199 pages ; 24 cm

For this major collection, spanning twenty years of writing, Jorie Graham has made a generous selection from her five previous volumes of poetry: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, Erosion, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness, and Materialism.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Poetry.

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1996.

The Way Things Work -- Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts -- I Was Taught Three -- Tennessee June -- Jackpot -- One in the Hand -- The Geese -- Mind -- Over and Over Stitch -- A Feather for Voltaire -- San Sepolcro -- Reading Plato -- Scirocco -- The Age of Reason -- Wanting a Child -- I Watched a Snake -- Salmon -- History -- Two Paintings by Gustav Klimt -- At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body -- Self-Portrait as the Gesture between Them -- On Difficulty -- Orpheus and Eurydice -- To the Reader -- Vertigo -- What the End Is For -- Self-Portrait as Apollo and Daphne -- The Lovers -- Noli Me Tangere -- Self-Portrait as Hurry and Delay -- Breakdancing -- The Veil -- Imperialism -- Of Forced Sightes and Trusty Ferefulness -- Fission -- At the Cabaret Now -- From the New World -- Untitled -- The Hiding Place -- The Region of Unlikeliness -- Holy Shroud -- Picnic -- Chaos -- The Marriage -- The Tree of Knowledge -- Short History of the West -- What Is Called Thinking -- Act III, Sc. 2 -- History -- The Phase after History -- Soul Says -- Notes on the Reality of the Self -- Steering Wheel -- Notes on the Reality of the Self -- Relativity: A Quartet -- In the Hotel -- The Dream of the Unified Field -- Manifest Destiny -- Opulence -- The Visible World -- The Surface.

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