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Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems

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..".This time, and in a very different place, the poet ventures upon a much more perilous dig, framing an archeology of the self which requires not only testimony but evidence, not only comment but construction. She disinters along 'boundaries of pain' which Dickinson, her surest mentor, identifies as 'capacious as the sea.' Great accuracy and great tenacity were required to write these poems, in which a significant amount of going under is...undergone. Readers, as well as the writer, must 'in the destructive element immerse'; but by trusting Lesser's method even as she follows her great predecessor in evidential texts, we ascend with her into radiance...."--Richard Howard on Rika Lesser's work

Language: English

Pages: 190

Format: Paperback

Release: November 28, 2008

ISBN 13: 9781931357609

Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems

0/5 ( ratings)

..".This time, and in a very different place, the poet ventures upon a much more perilous dig, framing an archeology of the self which requires not only testimony but evidence, not only comment but construction. She disinters along 'boundaries of pain' which Dickinson, her surest mentor, identifies as 'capacious as the sea.' Great accuracy and great tenacity were required to write these poems, in which a significant amount of going under is...undergone. Readers, as well as the writer, must 'in the destructive element immerse'; but by trusting Lesser's method even as she follows her great predecessor in evidential texts, we ascend with her into radiance...."--Richard Howard on Rika Lesser's work

Language: English

Pages: 190

Format: Paperback

Release: November 28, 2008

ISBN 13: 9781931357609

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