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9780826360755 Academic Inspection Copy

to cleave

poems
  • ISBN-13: 9780826360755
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
  • By Barbara Rockman
  • Price: AUD $43.99
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  • Local release date: 13/11/2019
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 104 pages Weight: 179g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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Full of sensory detail and written with astute observation, to cleave searches for and lays bare the mythic moments one finds even in the most ordinary life. In this stunning collection Rockman explores the themes of aging; our relationships to our bodies; marriage; and the surprises, griefs, and joys of motherhood. Each of the seven sections urges readers to view their daily lives with renewed curiosity and wonder.
Barbara Rockman is the author of Sting and Nest: Poems, winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. She teaches writing at Santa Fe Community College and at Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families. Raised in western MassachuSetts, she now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
To cleave, meaning both to cut and to cling, contains its opposites economically, and so within Barbara Rockman's luminous collection we find ourselves standing within the familiar fallen world: living to die, loving from a solitude we both long for and long to escape from. These are poems that cast a spell, an incantation, a divination, in Language rich enough to eat, that calls out from the soul and returns us to our senses." - Marie Howe, author of Magdalene: Poems
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