Astonishment

by Anne Stevenson

Taking its title from Derek Walcott's line, 'The perpetual ideal is astonishment', Anne Stevenson's 16th collection of poems looks back over eighty years of the earth's never-ceasing turbulence, setting clearly remembered scenes from her personal past against a background of geographical and historical change. As always, her chief preoccupation is with the extraordinary nature of experience itself, and this she explores as a geologist might explore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852249471
• ISBN13: 9781852249472
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.4"