COLOR IS THE SUFFERING OF LIGHT: A Memoir
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An acclaimed poet's memoir is a portrait of a young girl searching for meaning and beauty in a world of suffocating mother love, spiritual and physical poverty, alcoholism, and despair--with nature... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393036502
ISBN13:9780393036503
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:W W Norton & Co Inc
Length:341 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:8.5" x 1.3" x 5.8"
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Well written, insightful and disturbing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
A well-written, harrowing account of growing up amid dysfunction, and specifically, of being saved from a total death of the spirit by a rich protective inner life. Parts of this account are indulgent and perhaps even a little precious in its notion of being "saved" by words and the imagination, but nevertheless this is an absorbing book as well as a quiet and thoroughgoing indictment of the neglectful abuse that exists in many, many households, and as described here, will strike an emotional chord in many readers, as it did for me.
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