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Worldling
Overview
Winner of a 1996 Whiting Award. In her fourth collection of poems Elizabeth Spires addresses the elemental subjects of life and of literature: birth, death, creation, and intimations of immortality. The first section focuses on the experiences of conception, pregnancy, and childbirth from the points of view of both mother and child. The second section offers a reversal and reply in which the poems move out into a divided and divisive world. These poems are distinguished by an immaculate lyricism, a pristine sense for the natural world and the rhythms of language.
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- ISBN-13: 9780393316285
- ISBN-10: 0393316289
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: May 1992
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.57 x 0.29 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.26 pounds
- Page Count: 76
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