The best of the poet Lyn Lifshin, selected from her work from 1970 through 1996. Lifshin writes with energy, fire, and truth of the common world of experience. Bearing signs of struggle, pain, and loss, these poems carry the history of the body with agony and pride, as enduring tokens of what it is to be alive. things I have and don't have come from this moving between people like leaves like smoke. --from "Drifting" Contents include Onyxvelvet (Autobiography) , After Dark My Sweet (Love and Erotica) , Despite ...
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The best of the poet Lyn Lifshin, selected from her work from 1970 through 1996. Lifshin writes with energy, fire, and truth of the common world of experience. Bearing signs of struggle, pain, and loss, these poems carry the history of the body with agony and pride, as enduring tokens of what it is to be alive. things I have and don't have come from this moving between people like leaves like smoke. --from "Drifting" Contents include Onyxvelvet (Autobiography) , After Dark My Sweet (Love and Erotica) , Despite Everything (Family) , Blissful Misfits and Secret Faces (Other People) , Black Trillium and Apricot Wind (Place) . The journal, Choice , called this collection, "Magnificently crafted poems...concise field reports from a woman warrior at the front line of feeling."
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Very Good. Size: 5x0x8; VG+, 1997 Black Sparrow 1st edition, clean & tight, cover has short crease at bottom corner, spine color lightly fading, no markings found, not a remainder.
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Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Very good paperback, inscribed presentation copy signed by author. Clean pages, light creasing. 278pp.
