American Linden |
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| Author:
| Zapruder, Matthew |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9710310-9-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
| Publisher: | Tupelo Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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It is rare to come across a first book that embraces the world the way we see it, and the way it can be imagined--with such a wise and graceful mixture of humor, loss, intelligence, wit, self-deprecation, and hope. American Linden is such a first collection. The poems in this book are valuable, even necessary. They are, in the most important sense, love poems: to people, to ideas, to feelings, and to the mind itself, which by means of language move with honesty, wit, and...
More DescriptionIt is rare to come across a first book that embraces the world the way we see it, and the way it can be imagined--with such a wise and graceful mixture of humor, loss, intelligence, wit, self-deprecation, and hope. American Linden is such a first collection. The poems in this book are valuable, even necessary. They are, in the most important sense, love poems: to people, to ideas, to feelings, and to the mind itself, which by means of language move with honesty, wit, and distinction among the fleeting things of this world.