The Profile Makers: Poems
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Beauty of language, dazzling imagination, and a fierce empathy for her subjects distinguishes Linda Bierd's poetry and has made her "America's premier poet of description" (the HUDSON REVIEW). Whether... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0805055363
ISBN13:9780805055368
Release Date:November 1997
Publisher:Owl Publishing Company
Length:80 Pages
Weight:0.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"
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One of our best contemporary poets in top form.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
The language and perceptions are at all times rich and surprising. Individuality without self-display. Powerful imagination but always in service of a vision both broad and detailed. Intoxicating work, often historically rooted.
Magnificent
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This is a first-rate collection. Bierds explores questions of image, frame and contour in poems which trace, in a sense, a modern history of representation. A glorious example is her "The Breaking-Aways," an elegant poem which begins with Samuel Morse's astonished reaction to his own invention and which ends with his rhythmic remembrance of a childhood encounter with a mysterious sound in the forest, when he "made from that / scream, from that wondrous outrush, / something apart from wonder." Very highly recommended.
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