This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time, space, and knowledge. The speaker writes, "...the universe/is an arrow/without end/and it asks only one question;/How dare you?" Zig-zagging through the
Owl-Struck [Poem]
β Scribed by Brendan Galvin
- Book ID
- 124642408
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 91
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0037-3052
- DOI
- 10.2307/27544093
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