Stone Milk

by Anne Stevenson

The poems of Stone Milk address the way the written word preserves yet distorts the lives depending on it for fame or survival. Anne Stevenson's highly engaging new collection opens with A Lament for the Makers, an experimental sequence based on medieval dream poetry that plays with a Dante-inspired yet modern, scientific vision of an underworld of poets. This is followed by a series of shorter poems, mostly related to ageing and the prospect (even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852247754
• ISBN13: 9781852247751
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.4"