x, [2], 74 p., 1 leaf of a color illustration; 24 cm. Black cloth with yellow spine title. Grey endpapers. Dust jacket. Stated First Edition. "Robert Coles is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a leading chld psychiatrist, a compassionate and thoughtful essayist, and a sensitive, deeply moving poet." -- dust jacket. In Fine/Fine Condition: clean and bright.

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Title

Rumors of Separate Worlds: Poems by Robert Coles

Publisher

University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

087745258X

ISBN 13

9780877452584

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

fine

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Poems deal with the world's ambiguities, randomness, luck, fate, and the accidental

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This second volume of poetry is primarily for those intrigued by the Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist's nonfiction ( Children of Crisis ). Here Coles turns to his own experiences, and the humanity of his vision redeems the flatness of his verse. "Remembering a World," the first section, consists of elegies; in "Miss Avery's Class," the narrator recalls his fifth-grade teacher discussing Abraham Lincoln: "Washington was the father, / He the son, who died / For us to be free, you and me." Transformation is the theme throughout the second part, "Meeting Worlds," encompassing Coles's travels among the poor of Managua, who "watch their sons become Sandinistas," as well as the narrator's Ohio-born wife, who moves South and evolves into "a Dixie partner." The last section, "On the Day Jesus Christ Was Born," is a 12-poem sequence evoking Christmases spent in such diverse locations as Belfast, New Mexico and Soweto.
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