Something shining
Subtitle: new poems
By: by Daniel Halpern.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Description: "These poems explore relations between lovers, between friends, between fathers and children. Written by the light of a young daughter's presence these poems ponder the fading of the body and the struggle that consciousness wages to keep the self afloat. And into this intimate world also enter a surprising array of characters: ancient Chinese poets and modern Cuban musicians, Charlie Parker, Chekhov, and the dervish mystic Rumi.

But it is the poet's awareness of his own frailty ("the days run out - no longer oneself," he writes in "Fugue"), that, together with the extraordinary beauty he discovers in environments familiar and exotic, unifies this collection."--BOOK JACKET.