Along
the Dark Shore
by Edward Byrne
New Poets of America
Series
"The world of Edward Byrne's poems is our own world viewed
through the wrong end of a telescope: curiously small and urgent...
But the minuteness of scale is deceptive... in Byrne's poetry...
particulars explode into universality as through the action
of a zoom lens."
-
From the Foreword by John Ashbery
Explorers
Once
again
they
cross the wooden sea
the
planks of their ships
knotted
to each other
like
straw
they
sail in their own wake
each
member of the crew
mounts
a mast
to
become that part of the totem
shaped
into the animal
he
always wanted to be
and
above each vessel
lines
of clouds stretch
like
serpents
toward
gray cliffs overhanging
a
broken shore
where
the waters of the sun
lie
scattered
Copyright © 1977 by BOA Editions
Available
editions:
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Cloth
ISBN: 0-918526-10-8
Price: $7.00
Publishing Date: January 1977
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