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    A New Geography of Time
    A New Geography of Time
    A New Geography of Time
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    A New Geography of Time

    By Robert Viscusi

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    In these poems, objects are occasions in outline. Dogs, cats, pianos, cappuccino, hair dye, snowshoes, parsley, and black raspberries do not simply lie there. They act upon one another and upon us. They demonstrate the laws of time. One birthday is a hundred birthdays. One city disappears into another. {Guernica Editions}
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuernica
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    ISBN9781550714364
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      A New Geography of Time - Robert Viscusi

      ROBERT VISCUSI

      A NEW GEOGRAPHY OF TIME

      Essential Poet Series 124

      Guernica

      Toronto – Buffalo – Lancaster (U.K.) 2004  

      Contents

      It’s Always the Day After Your Birthday

      The Place You Left Your Violin

      The Pedagogy of Henna

      Web Site

      All Presidential Primaries

      The Famous Overtures, I

      Feeling Sorry for Myself

      After You

      Today Is the First Day of Spring

      The Shadow of Another Place

      Lent

      Where Are the Snows of Tomorrow?

      Picture of a Man with a Broken Heart

      Prizes Are Given on Tuesdays

      Six Windows

      Chances Are

      Stories from the Moon

      The Pressures of Pleasure

      Silence Is Maximum

      The Flower in the Window

      Siddhartha

      The Clarity of Typing

      Glorious Morning

      Sorrow as a Theory

      Joy as a Theory

      Old Ideas Are the Best Ideas

      Enthusiasm and the Lack

      The Boat for Childhood

      Far Rockaway

      Prom Night on the West Side Highway

      Pilgrim Potato Soup

      The Half of It

      The Price of Being Crazy

      The Minister of Craziness

      There Once Was a Queen with a Licorice Lip

      The Need to Be New

      However You Do It Is All Right

      A Trip to Italy

      The Pattern of Your Walk

      The Ninth Symphony

      Goon and Lagoons

      The Black Windowshade of Expressionist Painting

      Broken Pianos

      A New Geography of Time

      It’s Always the Day After Your Birthday

      Even on your birthday.

      What are you commemorating exactly?

      You are marking your place in the general rush of things.

      Fighting with the calendar is dangerous and expensive.

      Some people find it thrilling to have plastic surgery.

      They celebrate their sixtieth birthdays as if they had decided to be thirty-five again.

      All things are possible but come with constraints of price and time.

      Attaching something you aren’t can make you brittle, especially if you wear it all day.

      Money and time you spend changing your place can cost more than you think.

      Whatever you do means you are not doing something else.

      Even a rainy day has its virtues you do well not to overlook.

      Rainy days are good for visiting a cherry tree.

      The blossoms are there only a few days.

      All year you remember them.

      The bare tree is the place where blossoms were and will be.

      We use these blossoms to organize today and tomorrow in our minds.

      The tree is racing through the spirals of elapsed sunlight.

      You are

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