Between the Sea and Home
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0933377223 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly In the second poem of this debut collection, starved cats howling outside a window are "sometimes confused with the / cry of a baby or a / wild thing dying"--an appropriate introduction to the animal instincts battling with human nature in the poems that follow. Though they vary in length, all of David's convincing poems are remarkably uniform in line and stanza structure; but form is not the issue here, content is. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. A long poem is addressed to Delmira Agustini, a Uruguayan poet "murdered by her husband whom she left after twenty-six days of marriage." But this damage done to other women has its personal counterpart, as the speaker figuratively moves rocks aside to dig up her mother's b
A Customer said Satisfying!. Almitra David is a wonderful poet -- she captures images like a drink of sweet water -- you want more, and there's plenty more to have. I have enjoyed this book for several years and am just getting into her new bookthanks to author & publisher for offering us work like Almitra David's!
"This book, these poems, leave me speechless; they are explicitly political, proudly feminist, and as beautiful as words can be; they strike me as something close to the embodiment of energy, catching you up, whipping you away in a whirl of image and idea."--The Nation "Powerful in their beauty and mystery."--Library Journal