In The Brazen Serpent, among other preoccupations, poems explore how the most basic legends--family stories--fragment and alter in each individual's memory. N??? Chuillean???in's language is supple and acute enough to undertake its most difficult subject, how we perceive and understand the world, and how we share our worlds in mystery and love. The Brazen Serpent marks yet another advance in the work of a major poet.
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In The Brazen Serpent, among other preoccupations, poems explore how the most basic legends--family stories--fragment and alter in each individual's memory. N??? Chuillean???in's language is supple and acute enough to undertake its most difficult subject, how we perceive and understand the world, and how we share our worlds in mystery and love. The Brazen Serpent marks yet another advance in the work of a major poet.
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Good. There is a signature or handwriting on the inside front cover. There is light highlighting or handwriting throughout the book. Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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As New. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; ISigned by Author Signed by Author Signed by Author First U.S. Paperback Printing. Signed by Author on Title Page, and dated 3 April 1995. As New Condition. Bright and spotless gray cover with blue titles and illustration: Detail of 'L'elevation du Serpent d'Airain' from the Cathedral of St. Denis. In "The Brazen Serpent" Ni Chuilleanain's poems explore how the most basic legends-family stories-fragment and alter in each individual's memory. Her language is simple and acute enough to explore how we see and understand the world and how we share our worlds. The author has won the 'Irish Times' Award for Poetry, and other awards. 47 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 1995, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
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Fine. First American edition, wrappered issue. A fine copy. Ni Chuilleanain has won the Irish Times award for poetry, the 1973 Patrick Kavanagh Award and the O'Shaughnessy Award of the Irish-American Cultural Institute.
