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Overview
This collection of Joanne Kyger's work reveals her as one of the major experimenters, hybridizers, and visionaries of poetry. Kyger is a poet of place, with a strong voice-delicate, graceful, and never wasteful; her poems explore themes of friendship, love, community, and morality and draw on Native American myth as well as Asian religion and philosophy. Kyger's love for poetry manifests itself in a grander scheme of consciousness-expansion and lesson, but always in the realm of the everyday. Edited with a foreword by Michael Rothenberg, and with an introduction by poet David Meltzer, this book is a marvelous overview of a wonderfully challenging and important poet.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780142001127
- ISBN-10: 0142001120
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Publish Date: July 2002
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.89 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.03 pounds
- Page Count: 336
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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