Twin Cities

By Carol Muske-Dukes and Cleo Qian

A sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today's finest living poets. Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose latest collection, Sparrow , a haunting elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally rich book of poems about how things double-by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined-and the random intersection of the two. Lit by loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment and rescue-they are two, and they are one.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143119648
• ISBN13: 9780143119647
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher