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The Givens: Poems
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ISBN13: 9781324135104
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 128
Language: English
Wry and unsparing, the radiant poems in Sandra Lim's The Givens move deftly from the deeply personal to the mythic and world-historical. A master of sensory imagery, Lim offers us all the earthly pleasures and sensations of our daily lives--bread, cake, and meat; body, breath, and song; roses, trees, and stars--turning each moment over as one might turn over a rock to reveal a whole ecosystem. The Givens takes the measure of our existence with grandeur and charm: one moment we are struck by awe or darkness, the next we brush it off and move on to another day, another epoch. Everyday moments launch spiritual questions and the subtle truths and surprises within them; to eat and to joke is to think about the meaning of life. Terrible and wonderful in their news, the poems in The Givens dazzle in their bold inhabitation of lived and imagined experience.
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