Restoration: Poems

by Christina Pugh

Book Overview

Complex and focused, this collection of poems moves along the line between waking and sleeping to reveal a narrator who is contemplating her origins as well as her future. Pugh frequently turns in her work to the image of a bed--as a source of comfort, an erotic landing, and a place for dreaming. For Pugh, dreams both obscure and reveal, their language a code to be analyzed, as in her longer meditation inspired by Freud's case history "Dora." After...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810152053
• ISBN13: 9780810152052
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 8.5"