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Leap: Poems (Walt McDonald First-Book Series)
Elizabeth Haukaas
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Description for Leap: Poems (Walt McDonald First-Book Series)
Hardcover. Includes poems that focus on the hard subjects: a child's life-threatening illness, a mothers struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, ones own mortality, humanity's physical and emotional frailties. Series: Walt Mcdonald First-book Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Leap is a book about not looking away. These poems focus on the hard subjects: a child's life-threatening illness, a mothers struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, ones own mortality, humanity's physical and emotional frailties. But the poems in ""Leap"" are not grim. They resonate with life and survival, with richness of rhythm and language. They reach backward to embrace Primo Levi, Poe, and Berryman, and forward to anticipate a generation yet unborn. There is a keen eye observing the living and a keen ... Read more
Leap is a book about not looking away. These poems focus on the hard subjects: a child's life-threatening illness, a mothers struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, ones own mortality, humanity's physical and emotional frailties. But the poems in ""Leap"" are not grim. They resonate with life and survival, with richness of rhythm and language. They reach backward to embrace Primo Levi, Poe, and Berryman, and forward to anticipate a generation yet unborn. There is a keen eye observing the living and a keen ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Condition
New
Series
Walt Mcdonald First-book Series in Poetry
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896726475
SKU
V9780896726475
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About Elizabeth Haukaas
Elizabeth Haukaas, a former architect, now works in corporate communications for a financial services firm and lives in New York City. Her poems have appeared in the New England Review, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, New Millennium Writings, Agenda, Tigertail, Tulane Review, and the William and Mary Review.
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