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Fleet River

Fleet River traces the journey of two travelers through landscapes earthly and otherworldly, following the river as it turns, dips underground, then reemerges unexpectedly as they fall in love with the world, as though for the first time. Mimicking the river’s shifting course, the poems revise themselves as the book moves forward, turning against their own best discoveries, proving that the pilgrims’ journey is less the discovery of love than the re-creation, poem by poem, of love’s possibilities.

72 pages | 6-1/8 x 8-1/2 | © 2003

Phoenix Poets

Poetry

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Visible World
Learning Window
Geese
Sleepless Night
No Explanation
Unspoken
Photographs
Skin
Potential Space
Water Vapor
Providence
Fleet River
The Two Together
Before Time
The Renaissance Frost
Look There
Orion
Close Up
The Stranger
Overhead
Ground Level
The Art of Craving
Acqua Alta
Two Travelers
Soot Island
The Kearny Marshes
Anniversary
Accessible Bliss
Orphic Night
Bellosguardo
Iris
Ascension

Awards

The English-Speaking Union: Ambassador Book Awards
Shortlist

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