Grace, Fallen from. Marianne Boruch
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Grace, Fallen from
Wesleyan Poetry
ALSO BY MARIANNE BORUCH
Poetry
Ghost and Oar (chapbook)
Poems: New and Selected
A Stick that Breaks and Breaks
Moss Burning
Descendant
View from the Gazebo
Prose on Poetry
In the Blue Pharmacy
Poetry’s Old Air
Grace, Fallen from
Marianne Boruch
Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459
© 2008 by Marianne Boruch
All rights reserved
First Wesleyan paperback 2010
ISBN for the paperback edition: 978–0–8195–6953–0
CIP data appear at the end of the book
Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1
COVER ILLUSTRATION: Hammershoi, Wilhelm (1864–1916). “Rest,” oil on canvas, 1905, 49.5 x 46.5 cm. Photo: Michele Bellot. Photo courtesy of Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
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This project is supported in part by an awardfrom the National Endowment for the Arts |
Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.
—in memory of Don Dunlap, still here
“Only one thing is true: in me, a weight, a little stone.”
—Paul Klee
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