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Bad Secret: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9780807131398
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Apr 1 2006
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.22 Width: 4.96 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
The Bad Secret takes readers on a dark yet sometimes comic sojourn through the undercurrents of a life suddenly unmoored by grief, and then to the subsequent rise of the spirit to recovery. Tough-minded and intellectual, Judith Harris's poems are also distinguished by brilliant images close to metaphysical. They reflect on childhood, nature, mental and physical illness, the loss of a mother, and the levity of being simply human. In a voice entirely her own, Harris confronts life's secrets with their hidden meanings inspired by guilt and redemption, offering a music of tenderness and hope.
of my ghost in that suicidal machine. Hush, I say, as if hatred was a sound, as if I could make the negative positive, but nature itself has given up on the picture of my happy family, and pretends not to look at the box with the rolled-up Kodak filmtumbling over the ledgegathering more weight and velocity.
-- My Father Throws His Camera Down the Grand Canyon, 1968
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