Rope

by Alison Hawthorne Deming and Alison Deming

Book Overview

New from a poet renowned for her lyricism, wisdom, and originality Alison Hawthorne Deming 's fourth collection of poems follows the paths of imagination into meditations on salt, love, Hurricane Katrina, Greek myth, and the search for extraterrestrial life, all linked by the poet's faith in art as an instrument for creating meaning, beauty, and continuity--virtues diminished by the velocity and violence of our historical moment. The final long poem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143116363
• ISBN13: 9780143116363
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher