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Sub-Sub Librarian, Extracts on a

Sub-Sub Librarian, Extracts on a

Reymond, Eric

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1943444935
ISBN13: 9781943444939
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Mar 15 2018
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Sub-Sub Librarian is the figure imagined at the beginning of Herman Melville's MOBY DICK who compiles a list of extracts, or quotations and references, on whales. While Melville cheekily describes this librarian as painstaking burrower and grubworm of a poor devil, belonging to a hopeless, sallow tribe, the longest poem of Eric Reymond's new book imagines the Sub-Sub Librarian as experiencing transcendence and illumination through his wide readings. Additional poems build on this theme, finding inspiration in texts as diverse as contemporary poetry, vocabulary quizzes, and course syllabi.

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