Lovely Legs

By Jean O'Brien

In this lively and very readable collection; O'Brien has returned to many of her earlier themes, including dislocation - as she seeks to capture the precise moment of an event, its fulcrum. There are poems of heart and hearth and human relationships, familial, sexual, and historical: a father neglecting to teach his young daughter to swim, the trapped girls of The Chinese Chest, and poems of nature; often as closely concerned with the nature of man as the countryside they describe. Many of these poems, though serious in intent, are dealt with in a lighthearted and often witty manner, exploring a fascination with the ways of the world and its moral contradictions. "An excellent collection and choice pick." Midwest Book Review

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0956128726
• ISBN13: 9780956128720
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Salmon Publishing
• Length: 77 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.1"