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The seconds

Linda Bierds

200188 pagesabout 1–2 hours
2001
first published
  • 2001G.P. Putnam's Sons · 88 pages · ENGISBN 9780399147975

Reflecting on the way Philip V of Spain surrounded himself with clocks while he suffered from severe melancholia, poems express all the meanings and aspects of "seconds" as particles of time.

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