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A series of poems tells the story of a young woman coming to terms with her past, from her Southern childhood to her return home as an adult to help her dying mother
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To her credit, Conroy puts on a bravura performance in this collection of poems, frequently using models from Anglo-Saxon lyrics and Christopher Smart to Plath, Stevens, and H.D. Although these poems glimmer with a richly textured, modulated language, they remain curiously abstract: "passion delights a crystal fork where lightning clarity chuckles like thunder." Conroy unabashedly uses poetry to exorcise the demons of her past, but the extravagantly febrile style distances rather than holds the reader. Her method, as she writes in one poem, is to "bring mythic peacocks with their fine excess/ and let the feathers tell flamboyant stories." For all their verbal brilliance, these poems are unsatisfying. For large collections of contemporary poetry only.
- Christine Sten strom, New York Law Sch. Lib.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0393029204
- ISBN 13 9780393029208
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages124
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Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First/First. W W Norton, NY, 1991, 124 pgs. First/First in Near Fine/Near Fine condition with a bit of edge soiling and some cracking to gutter at pgs 48/49. Otherwise tight, square, clean,many unclipped (please review photos). The Author has Signed and inscribed to fellow poet and theatre director Grace Herman on the half title pg. Ms Herman has Signed and dated in the year of publication on the ffep. Also, pencil notation comments, presumably by Ms. Herman, appear on several poems. First book. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Grey boards with gold lettering. Seller Inventory # 2020004
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