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Synopsis
Time is the hour at which a pub closes, the moment we must put our pencils down, a way of paying later for something now. A Grammar to Waking explores moments we wake to the grammar of living time, what Virginia Woolf called moments of being. In the drift of the present, of song in the throat of its bird and the verb in its sentence, the drift of loved one into memory, of talk from the talker to the listener, how and where does meaning live? There are so many rules we don't even know, writes Nancy Eimers, but we wake to them anyway. This collection offers a reflective, loving look at the mystery of the time being.
About the Author
Nancy Eimers has been the recipient of a Nation "Discovery" Award, two National Endowments for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships and a Whiting Writer's Award. Among other publications, her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Poets of the New Century, The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and Field. She teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University and at Vermont College, and she lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.