Description: Paperback – These Green-Going-To-YellowPoems by Marvin Bell Copyright 1981 First Edition Book is in good condition. 69 pages A poem from the book by Marvin Bell: “This year,I'm raising the emotional ante,putting my facein the leaves to be stepped on,seeing myself among them, that is;that is, likeningleaf-vein to artery, leaf to flesh,the passage of a leaf in autumnto the passage of autumn,branch-tip and winter spacesto possibilities, and possibilityto God. Even on East 61st Streetin the blowzy city of New York,someone has planted a gingkobecause it has leaves like fans like hands,hand-leaves, and sex. Those lovelyChinese hands on the sidewalksso far from delicacyor even, perhaps, another gender of gingko--do we see them?No one ever treated us so gentlyas these green-going-to-yellow handsfanned out where we walk.No one ever fell down so quietlyand lay where we would lookwhen we were tired or embarrassed,or so bowed down by humanitythat we had to watch out lest our shoes stumble,and looked down not to look upuntil something looked like parts of peoplewhere we were walking. We have noexperience to make us see the gingkoor any other tree,and, in our admiration for whatever grows talland outlives us,we look away, or look at the middles of things,which would not be our wayif we truly thought we were gods.” Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Please see photos and email me if you have any questions. Pet free and smoke free home.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: BELL, Marvin
Publisher: Atheneum
Year Printed: 1981
Original/Facsimile: Original
