Before It's Light - Softcover
Lyn Lifshin's is a reader's poetry immediate and accessible, seemingly artless, conveying complex, womanly truths with an everyday vocabulary. To describe it as a kind of feminine folk art is not to condescend; it is instead to recognize in it the naked power of a Bessie Smith blues lyric, the stirring eroticism of a burley-q fan dance, even, on occasion, the simple, balanced beauty of a Shaker quilt. Before It's Light is Lifshin's latest collection, and her largest and strongest to date.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
These direct, spare, autobiographical poems evoke memories of an unlovely girlhood...a stormy marriage...the pain of losing a mother...the struggle to regain self-sufficiency after bad relationships. As always, Lifshin trawls deep waters of submerged passion beneath the surface of everyday life, coming up with a teeming, glistening catch. --Tom Clark
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherBlack Sparrow Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1574231146
- ISBN 13 9781574231144
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages250
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 97.94
Shipping:
US$ 4.13
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
BEFORE IT'S LIGHT
Published by
Black Sparrow Press
(1999)
ISBN 10: 1574231146
ISBN 13: 9781574231144
New
Softcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.7. Seller Inventory # Q-1574231146
Buy New
US$ 97.94
Convert currency