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Courage, Revising the Text

Courage, Revising the Text

Root, William Pitt

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1968783067
ISBN13: 9781968783068
Publisher: Press 53
Published: Mar 5 2026
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Courage, Revising the Text is William Pitt Root's sixteenth book of poems. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo said of Root, To read [his] poems is to cup a breath in your hands. Within the breath are fervent promises of remembrance whispered from the wheel of death, marriages, birth-out of fury and love. Barry Lopez said, [Root's] poems, as quiet and knowledgeable as boulders, are run with compassion and longing . . . they break winter's back. And Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky praised Root for a poem found in this collection saying, 'The Unbroken Diamond' is an extremely strong piece of work . . . this country needs badly. As fast as I know you are the only poet in the whole U.S. who had heart enough to address this subject (the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan). Your lines . . . surely redeem this nation.

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