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9780252073748 Academic Inspection Copy

The Disappearing Trick

  • ISBN-13: 9780252073748
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Len Roberts
  • Price: AUD $45.99
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  • Local release date: 13/09/2007
  • Format: Paperback 88 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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In The Disappearing Trick, Len Roberts wrestles with the loss of loved ones--whether that loss be through death, a son moving away to college, or simply how people fade from our lives and memories. Hybrids of the narrative and lyric form, these poems are models of indirect statement that have, as Sharon Olds has said, “emotional courage, powerful music, and a deep balance. Like the light shining on a face, or a girl's thigh back in a sixth-grade class, the poems often come as Proustian flashes--lasting just a second, but seeming eternal--amid an increasing darkness.
''As all good poetry does, that of Len Roberts directs one to the inexhaustible potential of human experience as a source of imaginative enlargement, even when that experience is exclusively the author's own. His death last year was a real loss to poetry.''--''Poetry ''''Salzburg'''' Review ''
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