num_pages: 72
description: Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry, buying a sandwich, and riding the subway are familiar experiences, one makes room for the actual to ally with the hypothetical by means of the emotions. The result, Wiese eloquently shows, is a form of truth that is silently generated whenever human beings earnestly endeavor to absorb the world.
language: English
title: Floating City: Poems
titlecomplete: Floating City: Poems (Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 52
series: Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Academy of American Poets First Book Award
publisher: LSU Press