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Curses and Wishes: Poems

Curses and Wishes: Poems

Adamshick, Carl

Paperback

Series: Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0807137766
ISBN13: 9780807137765
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Apr 22 2011
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Oregon Book Awards, Walt Whitman Award

The unusual voice encountered in Curses and Wishes carries a quiet, slightly elevatedconversational tone, which flows from intimate secrets to wider social concerns.
The poet has faith in economy and trusts in images to transfer knowledge that speech cannot. In Curses and Wishes the short, simple lines add up to a thoughtful book possessed with lyrical melancholy, a harmony of sadness and joy that sings: May happiness be a wheel, a lit throne, spinning / in the vast pinprick of darkness. By the close of this ambitious work the poet has inspired readers to see the multifaceted effects of our human connections.

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