Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
By: Kay Ryan
4.42
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitze…
Want to Read $ 9.99"[P]oetry makes nothing happen. That's the relief of it. And the reason why nothing can substitute for it."-Kay Ryan, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
"[P]oetry makes nothing happen. That's the relief of it. And the reason why nothing can substitute for it."-Kay Ryan, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
"[P]oetry makes nothing happen. That's the relief of it. And the reason why nothing can substitute for it."-Kay Ryan, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
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"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
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31. Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
By: Kay Ryan
4.42
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitze… read more
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- literary criticism
"[P]oetry makes nothing happen. That's the relief of it. And the reason why nothing can substitute for it."-Kay Ryan, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
