Century's Road

by Patricia Kirkpatrick

"I find myself taken by Patricia Kirkpatrick's unsentimental tenderness--a mark, I believe, of all good lyric poetry."--Jane Hirshfield

The poems in Century's Road travel the "plain public road" of American daily life while glimpsing the humanity of other continents. At the center of the book is the figure of the child as witness, whether newborn or newly immigrated, abandoned or unplanned, learning to read, or telling stories. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930100123
• ISBN13: 9780930100124
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Holy Cow Press
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"