Floating City: Poems

by Anne Pierson Wiese

Book Overview

Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807132357
• ISBN13: 9780807132357
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Just read one of the poems, gonna buy the book

Read "Tell Me", on "The Writer's Almanac" daily e-mail. Had to read the last line twice. A great thought: To be done with caring so much about what others think of me; No more secrets between us. I see myself reading this collection, appreciating life, gaining a little wisdom. Thank you to the author.