Download or read book The Promises of Glass written by Michael Palmer and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Promises of Glass, Michael Palmer's first new collection since At Passages (New Directions, 1995), contains seven sections: "The White Notebook", "The Promises of Glass", "Q", "Four Kitaj Studies", "Five Easy Poems" "In an X", and "Tower". These gorgeous new poems explore language and the "salt sea of autobiographies". His work also examines what Marjorie Perloff has described as "the absurdist 'displacement by degrees' one experiences in the post-urban world of late twentieth-century America."