Burnt Island

Poems

D. Nurkse

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Random House USA Inc
16 May 2006

Poetry by individual poets

D. Nurkse's Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three ""suites"" of lucid, often heart-wrenching verse, the book begins with a city under siege, in a group of poems that becomes a subtle homage to New York after 9/11-a metaphorical ""burnt island,"" where diggers doze on their shovels, citizens contribute bottles of water, M&M's, and casseroles to recovery efforts, and survivors, mesmerized by the photos of the missing, compare them ""scar by scar with the faces of the living."" Nurkse then takes up the journey of a couple starting again in nature at a specific place called Burnt Island, where the elements instruct them, seeming to mirror their conflicts and strife. Finally, in a charming and profound series of poems centered on marine ecology, he finds the infinite in the infinitesimally small, and offers us, in sparkling, mysterious verses, the strange comfort that comes with observing the life of the ocean.

we are like you because we are born by the billions and float into the open ocean- .

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. we live another second or much less, less than a blink,

until the code comes to know itself and the mind dreams another mind that will survive it there, in the bright curtain of spray.

(from ""The Granite Coast"")

By: D. Nurkse
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 149mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9780375710803
ISBN 10: 0375710809
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 16 May 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

D. Nurkse is the author of eight books of poetry. He has received the Whiting Writers' Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two grants from the New York State Foundation for the Arts, and other awards. He has also written widely on human rights. D. Nurkse's The Fall is available in Knopf paperback.

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