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As The Birds
Betty's Silence
Beyond Borders
Blessing
Both In And Out Of The Game And Watching And Wondering At It
Captain Andy
Carwash Kiss
Color: 1
Color: 2
Color: 3
Conquistador
Cowboy
The Dead Dance: 1
The Dead Dance: 2
The Dead Dance: 3
The Dead Dance: 4
The Dead Dance: 5
The Dead Dance: 6
Do Machines Bleed?
Dumb Husband
Heartshape
His Dark: 1
His Dark: 2
Komodo Dragon
Laughing Africa
Miracles
My Portrait
The Needle With Both Hands
New Lincoln Penny
Night Sail
No Historical Marker
Nothing Beautiful Except In Things
Permission To Live
Pink
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 1
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 10
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 11
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 12
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 2
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 3
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 4
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 5
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 5
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 6
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 7
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 8
The Ranchhand's Daughter: 9
Rite
The Root Of Mother Is Moth
Shell
Single Parent Wants To See A Film But Has No Sitter
The Sixties
Slaughter Of The Centaurs
Spiders
Water Ballet
Woman With Happiness Inside Her
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This urgent, spirited collection ranges in tone and subject matter from the vehemently political to the deeply personal. Svoboda ( All Aberration ) draws on her experiences in Africa and the South Pacific to examine modernity's subversion of humanity's archetypal, fundamental impulses. Insistent rhythms and recurring images of a "Paradise" lost to war, exploitation and nuclear destruction make apparent the poet's belief in a global fall from grace to a world of "knowledge without antidote" where "we have science clutched to our breast / like a lily." Svoboda's vision is not entirely bleak, however, and she pursues a recovered, Whitmanesque innocence as symbolized by the fertile, primitive landscape "where we began": Africa. "I hear Africa singing, . . . / and what I see is Africa / the beautiful, a wildness that's America's / no longer." In deftly crafted poems alternately hard-edged, sensual and tender, Svoboda delicately balances a harsh, yet convincing indictment of Western culture with an equally ardent belief in the possibility of human compassion and responsibility.
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- PublisherUniversity Of Iowa Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0877452725
- ISBN 13 9780877452720
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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