Cold Comfort: Selected Poems, 1970-1996
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The best of the poet Lyn Lifshin, selected from her work from 1970 through 1996.
Lifshin writes with energy, fire, and truth of the common world of experience. Bearing signs of struggle, pain, and loss, these poems carry the history of the body with agony and pride, as enduring tokens of what it is to be alive. things I have anddon't have
come from this
moving between people like leaves like
smoke.
--from "Drifting" Contents include Onyxvelvet (Autobiography), After Dark My Sweet (Love and Erotica), Despite Everything (Family), Blissful Misfits and Secret Faces (Other People), Black Trillium and Apricot Wind (Place). The journal, Choice, called this collection, "Magnificently crafted poems...concise field reports from a woman warrior at the front line of feeling."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1574230409
ISBN13:9781574230406
Release Date:September 1997
Publisher:Black Sparrow Press
Length:278 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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