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Synopsis
Poems deal with social and historical issues, including the Holocaust, AIDS, urban violence, and prison
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About the Author
Lynda Hull was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1954, and was the author of two previous collections of poetry, Ghost Money and Star Ledger. She was the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council, and winner of the Carl Sandburg Award; she also received four Pushcart Prizes, the Juniper Prize and the Edwin Piper Memorial Prize. She died in 1994.
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"Here in the late 20th century, with the young writing their professional poetry, it is both wonderful and bewildering to find these brilliant last poems of Lynda Hull. Hers is the amateur heart at play in the winter censuswhat wheeling incandescent numbers, in vision, were given before she was taken away...I'm confident that the best of her lyrics will survive us all." -- Norman Dubie
"The Only World is a tableau of a witness's interior-exterior journey. Measured experience informs these poems, as Lynda Hull's voice comes alive again and again, line to line and image to image, propelling us outwards with her symphonic quest. With her adept flourishes, we can feel some nerve endings exposed; but there are also numerous moments of near beatitude. Because Hull has troubles the waters, her poetry makes us trurer to ourselves and those around us. Each image is a beam in a persistent searchlight that penetrates. We will miss her greatly. But we've been left this fine collection of poetry, a gift we can hold in our hands." -- Yusef Komunyakaa
"Of all the poets of my generation, Lynda Hull remains the most heartbreaking, merciful, and consoling. If Eurydice had simply refused to follow Orpheus up into the soft prison of sunlight, instead turning back to her beloved underworld, these poems are the songs she would have sung in celebration of all of us who struggle, fail, and yet somehow survive. The Only World is now what is left to us of Lynda Hull's extraordinary lyric grace and constant poetic courage. It is a book to treasure." -- David St. John
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- PublisherPerennial
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0060951125
- ISBN 13 9780060951122
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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