Elizabeth Spires

Worldling

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With not one wrong move, not one word off-key or trivial, this collection of poems makes us experience intimate, yet not necessarily personal, contact with the poet who lets us at times see the struggle behind the refined sensibility. . . .Spires asks the big questions with such competence and polish that we admire her sweating, our metaphysical gladiator, guarantor of our considerable pleasure.” —Nancy Nahra, Philadelphia InquirerWinner of a 1996 Whiting Award. In her fourth collection of poems Elizabeth Spires addresses the elemental subjects of life and of literature: birth, death, creation, and intimations of immortality. The first sectio… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-28566-6
EAN: 9780393285666
Produktnummer: 34248074
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
Seitenangabe: 80 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 453 KB

Über den Autor

Elizabeth Spires is the author of seven poetry collections, including Worldling and The Wave-Maker. Her poetry has appeared in the Atlantic and The New Yorker, among other publications. A professor at Goucher College, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland.