Title: Landscapes on a train /
Authors: Swensen, Cole, 1955-; University Press of New England,; Nightboat Books,; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Year: 2015
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: Influenced by the history of landscape painting, Cole Swensen’s new book is an experiment in seriality, in the different approach and scope that language must take to record the way that fluctuations of minutiae transform a whole. These poems meditate on what it is simply to look at the world, without judgment, without intervention, without appropriation. Swensen’s lyric observations, lilting and delicate, distill the act of seeing -- Provided by the publisher.