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Mother in Summer (Triquarterly Books)
Susan Hahn
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Description for Mother in Summer (Triquarterly Books)
Paperback. A heartbreaking and heartbroken collection of poems, offering a candid and powerful insight into the grief of losing a parent. It is an avid, grief-stricken book of the Mother. With inconsolable intensity, it speaks to both her plenitude and death, and yearns for life's impossible continuity. Series: Triquarterly Books. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 145.
Poems that offer a candid and powerful insight into the grief of losing a parent; Mother in Summer is a heartbreaking and heartbroken book of poems. It is an avid, near maniacal, utterly grief stricken Book of the Mother. With inconsolable intensity, it speaks to both her plentitude and her death. Each of the lyrics has its own distinctive shape and character, yet the feeling accrues from poem to poem until the overall effect is that of reading a single long poem. Despite the impressive formal control of the book, there is nothing willed or self-conscious about the writing. Keeping ... Read more
Poems that offer a candid and powerful insight into the grief of losing a parent; Mother in Summer is a heartbreaking and heartbroken book of poems. It is an avid, near maniacal, utterly grief stricken Book of the Mother. With inconsolable intensity, it speaks to both her plentitude and her death. Each of the lyrics has its own distinctive shape and character, yet the feeling accrues from poem to poem until the overall effect is that of reading a single long poem. Despite the impressive formal control of the book, there is nothing willed or self-conscious about the writing. Keeping ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Triquarterly
Condition
New
Series
Triquarterly Books
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810151307
SKU
V9780810151307
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Mother in Summer (Triquarterly Books)
Susan Hahn's Mother in Summer is a flowering bulb from the raw, dank earth of sorrow and loss. It is vivid, luminous and heartbreakingly moving, reaching the mind and soul through contrapuntal images of memory and yearnings for life's impossible continuity. - Chaim Potok