TY - BOOK ID - 30693997 TI - Wake: Poems By Bin Ramke. PY - 1999 SN - 1587293056 0877456585 9781587293054 9780877456582 PB - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, DB - UniCat KW - Birds in literature. KW - Poetry -- Collections. KW - Poetry. KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - American Literature KW - American poetry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30693997 AB - Throughout Bin Ramke's book of poems, certain elements recur insistently: birds and boyhood, betrayal and longings that careen between flesh and faith.Ramke refuses to distinguish between scientific and poetic approaches to knowing the world. In Wake, the poet does not pretend to offer wisdom but instead offers words, and the words are given as much freedom as possible. The title itself resonates with all its presumptive meanings: an alternative to dreaming, a ceremony binding the living to the dead, and the pattern left briefly in water by boats-handwriting as turb ER -