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The Second Child
Deborah Garrison
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Description for The Second Child
Paperback. A book of poems about family in a world both more exciting and frightening than ever before. It explores the facets of motherhood - ambivalence, trepidation and joy - while coming to terms with the seismic shift in the author's outlook and in the world around her. She also confronts her post-9/11 fears as she commutes daily into New York City. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 112.
Deborah Garrison's "The Second Child" is a book of poems about family in a world both more exciting and more frightening than ever before. It explores many facets of motherhood - ambivalence, trepidation and joy - coming to terms with the seismic shift in her outlook and in the world around her. She confronts her post-9/11 fears as she commutes daily into New York City, continuing to seek passion in her marriage and wrestling with her feelings about faith and the mysterious gift of happiness. Her critically acclaimed first collection, "A Working Girl Can't Win" chronicled the progress and predicaments ... Read more
Deborah Garrison's "The Second Child" is a book of poems about family in a world both more exciting and more frightening than ever before. It explores many facets of motherhood - ambivalence, trepidation and joy - coming to terms with the seismic shift in her outlook and in the world around her. She confronts her post-9/11 fears as she commutes daily into New York City, continuing to seek passion in her marriage and wrestling with her feelings about faith and the mysterious gift of happiness. Her critically acclaimed first collection, "A Working Girl Can't Win" chronicled the progress and predicaments ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247980
SKU
V9781852247980
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-92
About Deborah Garrison
Deborah Garrison was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and educated at Brown University and New York University. For 15 years she worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker and is now the poetry editor at Alfred A. Knopf and a senior editor at Pantheon Books. She lives with her husband and three children in Montclair, New Jersey. She ... Read more
Reviews for The Second Child
'With their short lines, sneaky rhymes, and casual leaps of metaphor, Garrison's poems have a Dickinsonian intensity' - John Updike'It takes agility and imagination to write well about the ordinary...Garrison's first book won readers...with directness, modesty and unshowy wit. Those qualities also mark her new collection, The Second Child. This time the material includes parenthood and the attacks of September ... Read more