Grace Period (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 90)

By Gary Miranda

Book Overview

From a review of Listeners at the Breathing Place : [Miranda's] "best is breathtaking. Beyond the words, whatever is is light. A poet who can make us know, with this intensity, what we may do when words reach into silence, even the silences between the stars, has begun to tell us of the place for love. Certainly we can want no better."-- Michael Heffernan, Poetry

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069101406X
• ISBN13: 9780691014067
• Release Date: May 1983
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Pure Grace

Gary Miranda's book "Grace Period" is one of the finest, most beautiful collections I have read. Mr. Miranda has a talent that few poets have--he can take words, and place them next to each other such that they make the space between thought and expression somehow implicit in the language. It is a true shame that this work is out-of-print. It includes some of the most wonderfully crafted pieces of poetry I've ever encountered--"Hungers" and especially the book-opening "Visibilities" stand out. "The World That Is Offered," a long poem of reflection and advice directed to his son, Nicolas (one of my good friends) is among the most gripping and graceful extended poems I've read. This is a beautiful book.