num_pages: 80
description: 
  Who was that stranger beside me?Please forgive me for insistingIt must have been a dream.No one could survive such happiness.                           --from "[Untitled]"The Lyrics records the days of one seeking knowledge through movement and contingent images--a monastery, a motel, an Irish coastal river--all the while conscious of political and class warfare, of being American, of the need to know the difference (if there is one) between good and evil. Each poem is a lament formed in a place of rest, asking: Can we get beyond this and still be? The Lyrics is the newest work of an intense and vital poet. 

language: English
title: The Lyrics
titlecomplete: The Lyrics
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 71
publisher: Graywolf Press