The Book of Common Betrayals

By Lynne Knight

Poetry. Lynne Knight's first book won a Quarterly Review of Literature prize in 1996. Her second full-length collection has won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize for 2002. In it Knight explores the idea that betrayal, whether a violation of trust or an unwitting revelation, is part of our inheritance as humans. "In poems fueled by a combination of passion and panic, Knight disarms us only to expand our vision. She turns the inner world outward and exposes what we've kept secret-sometimes even from ourselves. . . . These are driven poems uttered in the heart's vernacular"-Andrea Hollander Budy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971960704
• ISBN13: 9780971960701
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Bear Star Press
• Length: 73 Pages