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Stealing Flowers from the Neighbors
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639800100
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 16 2021
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Part elegy, part love letter, part confrontation of self and others, Sherri Levine's first full-length book of poetry traces an emotional journey in which she explores the often confounding mysteries of childhood as they evolve into the traumas and occasional joys of later life: a young woman's confusion about men, about trust, about the nature of sanity. A difficult mother-daughter relationship resolves at the end of the mother's life, and the mother becomes, in memory, more beautiful. Trouble, love, forgiveness. Isn't this the way our lives go? Levine's fine collection ponders these vital conundrums and provides a revelatory path toward understanding them.
--Andrea Hollander, author of Blue Mistaken for Sky and Landscape with Female Figure
With an artistic, tonal range, Levine's fearless poems ricochet between captivating and inescapable. At heart, the allure is a strangeness and the energy relentless, as she fulfills with savvy two sections titled Girl (then) Unleashed. She knows where the journey ends and will not blink. As readers, we better not either. With humor sometimes subtle sometimes dark, images gorgeous or stunning, these poems travel twists and loops and satisfy as they land on sure feet.
--John C. Morrison, author of Monkey Island and Heaven of the Moment
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