A Drowning Man Is Never Tall Enough: Poems

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.

• | Author: Patrick Lawler
• | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0820352268
• | ISBN-13: 9780820352268