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A Girl in Water (Parallel Press Chapbook Series)

Barbara Edelman

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Description:These poems swim the depths-sometimes murky, sometimes shimmering-of our complicated relationships to family, lovers and ourselves. Along the way, Edelman's precise, luminous language and ear for the song in a line set up elegant containers for the "furious. . leaps and slides" of a life. These are restless poems that tangle with loose ends and surprises, : "One {poem} will kiss you deeply,/teeth and all. . while another punches you in the stomach. . they sting you with loose pieces of yourself." Yet a sturdy resilience emerges as the speaker manages a wry balance between contradictory perspectives; she is like the Lower Amazon paddlers, precarious in their dugout, in a hemisphere where "rivers run backwards and clouds/appear solid as mountains." And as the swimmer in the title poem tirelessly grabs for elusive treasure on the lake bottom, we get hooked on her search. . get hooked/on the way she keeps diving/and rising. . ./ shoots up into air with her fist raised/hangs on like that to what's left."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Girl in Water (Parallel Press Chapbook Series). To get started finding A Girl in Water (Parallel Press Chapbook Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2002

ISBN: 1893311201

Description: These poems swim the depths-sometimes murky, sometimes shimmering-of our complicated relationships to family, lovers and ourselves. Along the way, Edelman's precise, luminous language and ear for the song in a line set up elegant containers for the "furious. . leaps and slides" of a life. These are restless poems that tangle with loose ends and surprises, : "One {poem} will kiss you deeply,/teeth and all. . while another punches you in the stomach. . they sting you with loose pieces of yourself." Yet a sturdy resilience emerges as the speaker manages a wry balance between contradictory perspectives; she is like the Lower Amazon paddlers, precarious in their dugout, in a hemisphere where "rivers run backwards and clouds/appear solid as mountains." And as the swimmer in the title poem tirelessly grabs for elusive treasure on the lake bottom, we get hooked on her search. . get hooked/on the way she keeps diving/and rising. . ./ shoots up into air with her fist raised/hangs on like that to what's left."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Girl in Water (Parallel Press Chapbook Series). To get started finding A Girl in Water (Parallel Press Chapbook Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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