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Loosestrife: Poems Book
Dunn's new collection of poetry, the first since his New & Selected Poems 1974-1994, explores interior worlds of human loneliness and exterior worlds of Darwinian animal struggle. Broken relationships figure prominently in the human world, with a sense of loss that kills free will: "Everything was clear, and nothing much/the better for it./ They agreed it was a matter of caring,/ and each felt the dull courage that comes/ from caring less." With the animals, free will is absent anyway, and the savage realities come inevitably as instinct--as when a tiger cub raised by goats discovers its carnivorous and lethal nature. The common thread in many poems is the acknowledgment of a crushing determinism.Read More
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Product Description
In a new collection of poetry, the award-winning author of
- 039303982X
- 9780393039825
- S Dunne
- 28 November 1996
- W. W. Norton & Co.
- Hardcover (Book)
- 96
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