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Leap: Poems

Leap: Poems

Haukaas, Elizabeth
Fink, Robert A.

Hardcover

Series: Walt McDonald First-Book Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0896726479
ISBN13: 9780896726475
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: Feb 1 2009
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Leap is a book about not looking away. These poems focus on the hard subjects: a child's life-threatening illness, a mother's struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, one's own mortality, humanity's physical and emotional frailties. But the poems in Leap are not grim. They resonate with life and survival, with richness of rhythm and language. They reach backward to embrace Primo Levi, Poe, and Berryman, and forward to anticipate a generation yet unborn. There is a keen eye observing the living and a keen ear moving these poems along to their surprising last lines. At once narrative and lyric, they express the voice and experience of a poet who has lived fully--and is now fully engaging the tools of her craft.

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