Isbn: 9781954245501 - so long: poems (4 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Anticipating and then grieving the death of her father, Jen Levitt's>So Long fleshes out a full elegiac register, sitting with the mourning of farewell while holding onto gratitude, remembrance, and a permeating love. Soon, she says, we'll have to find another way to meet, as moonlight / makes the river glow. In the contrails of bittersweet loss, Levitt's speaker observes all that surrounds her, and the self, too, as a phenomenon in loneliness. In the suburbs, she notes high- school athletes circling in their sweat-resistant fabrics, so natural in their tank tops, those dutiful kids trying to beat time; upstate, she finds herself in temple where Broadway music has replaced prayer and discovers no promises, / but, like hearing a rustle in deep woods & turning to locate its source, the chance for something rare. It is this humanistic faith that inverts the title's idiomatic goodbye into a statement of permanence, the truth of our enduring, improbable lives: look at this, she seems to command herself, & look at how lucky I've been, for so long.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 71 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

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