The Odd Last Thing She Did: Poems - Softcover

Leithauser, Brad

9780375708497: The Odd Last Thing She Did: Poems

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ISBN 10: 0375708499 ISBN 13: 9780375708497

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

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A new collection of works from a respected poet explores the nature of language as the poems delve into the subtleties of our human relationships and observe with elegance and precision the natural world. Reprint.

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rad Leithauser's poems evince a profound love of nature and a mastery of poetic forms. But they also reflect a deepening interest in storytelling, as Leithauser, who has also published four novels, here brings the narrative drive that propels his fiction into the domain of verse.

With compassion and imagination, Leithauser enters into the mysteries of lives both real and fictional: a middle-aged businessman who marries the identical twin of his deceased wife; a beautiful young woman whose life ends on a beautiful summer day; an elderly couple conducting a confused, touching romance in a nursing home; a young World War II soldier returning, wounded, to his fiancee.

And, as always, Leithauser's poems about the natural world are both coolly precise and warmly engaging. A marsh in March, the play of sunlight underneath a bridge, a long-delayed spring, the contemplation of a moonless earth--all lead the poet, and ultimately the reader, into meditation and wonder.

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