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Published seven years after her debut collection A Dome of Many-Coloured Glasses, Pictures of the Floating World (1919), is another dazzling volume of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Amy Lowell. Divided into two sections; Pictures of the Floating World finds inspiration from both Japanese and Chinese poetry, with Lowell trying her hand at the hokku and Chinoiserie. In poems like "e;Reflections"e; and "e;Falling Snow,"e; Lowell paints delicate pictures of experiencing nature, with stanzas such as, "e;When I looked into your eyes / I saw a garden / With peonies, and tinkling pagodas / And round-arched bridges,"e; and, "e;The snow whispers about me / And my wooden clogs / Leave holes behind me in the snow / But no one will pass this way."e; And in the second section, "e;Planes of Personality,"e; Lowell treads familiar ground with over a dozen lyrical poems, written just after the publication of her second collection, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed and up to April 1919. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition Amy Lowell's Pictures of the Floating World is a classic work of American poetry reimagined for modern readers.