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    The Captain Lands in Paradise
    The Captain Lands in Paradise
    The Captain Lands in Paradise
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    The Captain Lands in Paradise

    By Sarah Manguso

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    Sarah Manguso’s first collection, a combination of verse and prose poems, explores love, nostalgia, remorse, and the joyful and mysterious preparation for the discoveries of new lands, selves, and ideas. The voice is consistently spare, honest, understated, and eccentric.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlice James Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2002
    ISBN9781948579889
    The Captain Lands in Paradise
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    Sarah Manguso

    Sarah Manguso is the author of 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, The Two Kinds of Decay, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, Siste Viator, and The Captain Lands in Paradise. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize, and her books have been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Her poems have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series, and her essays have appeared in in Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and the Paris Review. She has taught graduate and undergraduate writing at institutions including Columbia, NYU, Princeton, Scripps College, and the University of Iowa. She lives in Los Angeles.

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      The Captain Lands in Paradise - Sarah Manguso

      I

      The Rider

      Some believe the end will come

      in the form of a mathematical equation.

      Others believe it will descend as a shining horse.

      I calculate the probabilities to be even at fifty percent:

      Either a thing will happen or it won’t.

      I open a window,

      I unmake the bed,

      Somehow, I am moving closer to the equation

      or to the horse with everything I do.

      Death comes in the form of a horse

      covered in shining equations.

      There will be no further clues, I see.

      I begin to read my horse.

      The equations are drawn in the shapes of horses:

      horses covered in equations.

      I am tempted to hook an ankle

      around the world as I ride away.

      For I am about to ride far beyond

      the low prairie of beginnings and endings.

      The Deer Comes Down the Mountain

      Now we gather worshipful.

      The gears in his legs shine down.

      He lifts his head.

      Here he comes!

      We’re erecting a maypole with green ribbons.

      His legs are four probes.

      And his back is a ship

      And his eyes are holes in the curtain.

      We’re eating cookies in the shape of him.

      The icing is gold and silver.

      He’s shedding gears, here he comes tripping!

      He is casting off the elastic bindings.

      Now we’re hanging giant flags.

      The wind-up key sticks in his side like a blade.

      The wind rocks him on his wheels.

      Here he comes, crawling!

      The bright obvious shines in his body.

      Here comes the electric, the burning mystery!

      It’s a Fine Thing To Walk Through the

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