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In The Chain, Sleigh explores the nature of memory, and its ability to recast events in contradictory ways as it links individual lives to history. The book is made up of a series of elegies, portraits and love poems.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Invocation Lamentation on Ur The Word The Tank Child's Drawing: "Boy Holding a Ball at a Funeral" In the Park The Safety of Sunday Under the Mountain The Line Song Crossing the Border The Denial Terminus The Appointment The Death Radio Great Island The Dolphin's Dream For a Young Painter The Octopus The Library Shame A Western Eclipse The Perspective Some Larger Motion The Canoe The Climb The Distance Between The Web The Work The Souls

The Chain Phoenix Poets

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    A Hardback by Tom Sleigh

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 2/15/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226762401, 978-0226762401
      ISBN10: 0226762408

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In The Chain, Sleigh explores the nature of memory, and its ability to recast events in contradictory ways as it links individual lives to history. The book is made up of a series of elegies, portraits and love poems.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Invocation Lamentation on Ur The Word The Tank Child's Drawing: "Boy Holding a Ball at a Funeral" In the Park The Safety of Sunday Under the Mountain The Line Song Crossing the Border The Denial Terminus The Appointment The Death Radio Great Island The Dolphin's Dream For a Young Painter The Octopus The Library Shame A Western Eclipse The Perspective Some Larger Motion The Canoe The Climb The Distance Between The Web The Work The Souls

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