This is a poetry of excursions: into maps of lost territories, into the thoughts of a man with no legs, into the life of a town marked by disasters.

Patrick Lawler moves into the slender lines of shattered glass, the spaces between lyric and narrative, between metamorphosis and mutation. From the artful surface of a Russian novel, rich with symbolism and white bears, to a survivor's unwillingness to immerse himself in life or leave it, the poems in A Drowning Man Is Never Tall Enough hunger for a language beyond the solid, for the fragmentation that makes a scene complete.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 01/01/1990
ISBN: 9780820311586
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.52w x 0.31d