ISBN: 9780999397138 - labor (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I have to keep looking; try to see more, speak more, turn away less,' says Lisa DeSiro in her fine first book, Labor. And this is what her poems do: they keep their eyes peeled, their ears open, and their hearts receptive. (Boston street bustle comes vividly alive in many of these poems.) But receptivity demands a tolerance for paradox, and DeSiro's poems--in disarmingly simple, idiomatic language--plumb the secrets of the world's contradictions. 'Go ahead, enjoy this day' begins a poem titled '9/11 Anniversary, Public Garden.' At home with the prose poem as well as the tightly rhymed lyric, DeSiro distills memorable music from the most colloquial moments--'We were all thumbs on our dumb phones'--and offers readers a vibrant panoply of sights and sounds, captured and conveyed in her impressively taut writing.…

Zustand: New.