The marble fly /
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| Author / Creator: | McKendrick, Jamie, 1955- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. |
| Description: | viii, 56 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford poets. Oxford paperbacks |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2609902 |
| Summary: | In the title poem of Jamie McKendrick's third collection, a fly carved on a Pompeian wall-relief offers an image of the momentary made permanent, of movement and stasis. Many forms of transport - a chimerical hearse, a ten-gun brig, a bike, a banana boat - take these poems to unexpected destinations. The journeys they chart explore the overlap between natural and human histories, and the instability and oddness of our attempts to make sense of them. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 56 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0192832565 |