The Gift to be Simple

Robert Peters

ISBN 10: 0871401037 / ISBN 13: 9780871401038

Published by Liveright, 1975

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[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: first ] Publisher: Liveright Pub Date: 1/1/1975 Binding: Paperback Pages: 113 first edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gift to be Simple
• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871401037
• ISBN 13: 9780871401038
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Not since John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet has there been a more remarkable embodiment of an historic personality in poetic form than in this book.

Through lyric and narrative sequences of great variety, Robert Peters becomes Ann Lee, the Mother Founder of the Shakers. He imaginatively relives her extraordinary life, from her childhood to her arrival with the first Shakers in American two hundred years ago. Visionary, full of craft and song, The Gift to Be Simple is a poem made of poems that stand on their own. Taken as a whole, they make a reading experience of unforgettable vividness.

About the Author

Robert Louis Peters as born in northern Wisconsin in 1924. He is the author of Songs of a Son and nine other volumes of poetry and criticism. He taught in the writing program of the University of California, Irvine.