Earth is unprotected and the Vvong horde is coming. Lazarus and his group of Alpha Mages had been ensnared in suspended animation for almost 100 years. They were destined to find the great wizard Merlin to help them fight the Vvong, an insectile race of creatures, but they became trapped in a magi
Middle Earth
โ Scribed by Henri Cole
- Book ID
- 111907162
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781466877764
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The fullest culmination to date of an original voice and "a central poet of his generation" (Harold Bloom)
Time was plunging forward,
like dolphins scissoring open water or like me,
following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef,
where the color of sand, sea and sky merged,
and it was as if that was all God wanted:
not a wife, a house or a position,
but a self, like a needle, pushing in a vein.
--from "Olympia"
In his fifth collection of verse, Henri Cole's melodious lines are written in an open style that is both erotic and visionary. Few poets so thrillingly portray the physical world, or man's creaturely self, or the cycling strain of desire and self-reproach. Few poets so movingly evoke the human quest of "a man alone," trying "to say something true that has body, / because it is proof of his existence."Middle Earth is a revelatory collection, the finest work yet from an...
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Earth is unprotected and the Vvong horde is coming. Lazarus and his group of Alpha Mages had been ensnared in suspended animation for almost 100 years. They were destined to find the great wizard Merlin to help them fight the Vvong, an insectile race of creatures, but they became trapped in a magi
The fullest culmination to date of an original voice and "a central poet of his generation" (Harold Bloom) Time was plunging forward, like dolphins scissoring open water or like me, following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef, where the color of sand, sea and sky merged, and it was as if t
**The fullest culmination to date of an original voice and "a central poet of his generation" (Harold Bloom)** *Time was plunging forward,* *like dolphins scissoring open water or like me,* *following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef,* *where the color of sand, sea and sky merged,