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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: memory of the future
    sub title: poems
  title info:
    title: Poems. Selections
  name:
    name part: Spires, Elizabeth
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 81 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In A Memory of the Future, critically acclaimed poet Elizabeth Spires reflects on selfhood and the search for a core identity. Inspired by the tradition of poetic interest in Zen, Spires explores the noisy space of the mind, interrogating the necessary divide between the social persona that navigates the world and the artist's secret self. With vivid, careful attention to the minute details of everyday moments, A Memory of the Future observes, questions and meditates on the ordinary, attempting to make sense of the boundaries of existence. As the poems move from Zen reflections outward into the identifiable worlds of Manhattan, Maine and Maryland's Eastern shore, houses, both real and imagined, become metaphorical extensions of the self and psyche. These poems ask the unanswerable questions that become more pressing in the second half of life. How are we changed by the passage of time? How does memory define and shape us? As Spires reminds us, any memory of the future will become, paradoxically, a memory of the past and of forgetting.
  note: Elizabeth Spires.
  note: Poetry browsing collection : gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family.
  classification: PS3569.P554 A6 2018
  classification: 811/.54
  identifier: 9780393651058
  identifier: 0393651053
  identifier: 2018004711
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180130
    record change date: 20181024144031.0
    record identifier: in00004034125