Imago
Subtitle: Poems
Contributors: Philip Levine (Foreword)
Publisher: CavanKerry Press
Published: September 1, 2007
Place of publication: Fort Lee, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781933880037
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Asian American Poetry; Poetry; USA; American - General; Poetry / General
Description: "This pair once belonged to my father, army green, golden on the thinning heels and toes, decades old-- they have disappeared into the dryer-netherworld only to return repeatedly, wiser than before-- their elastics still grasp my lower calves. When I slip into them, I see my father in his footwear, like Mercury, a copper-eyed young man, like myself, brewing with stormy promise, prepared to soar over the dusty world. Dear socks, don₂t lead me astray. Propel me from this dissatisfied life to places where my father has never been."