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Deeds of Utmost Kindness
Overview
A travelogue that employs diverse settings and styles of poetry.
A haunting and peculiar travelogue, Deeds of the Utmost Kindness employs forms as diverse as haiku and prose poetry in settings that range from Japan to the rural Ozarks to contemporary Moscow. The compelling strangeness of the poems' precise details exposes varied rhythms of thought and illustrated how different logics work in the metaphoric structures of changing places . Yet behind the uneasy sense of dislocation felt by the constant traveler lies the personal, essentially moral, voice of the poet as observer.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780819512123
- ISBN-10: 0819512125
- Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
- Publish Date: January 1994
- Dimensions: 9.16 x 6.34 x 0.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.34 pounds
- Page Count: 86
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