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Summer Porches and Unfinished Conversations

Summer Porches and Unfinished Conversations

Socolow, Elizabeth Anne

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1482686465
ISBN13: 9781482686463
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 2 2013
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
This collection contains the first published and publicly appreciated poems of Elizabeth Socolow's life as a poet. They led up to her writing and winning the Barnard Poetry Prize in 1987 for Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton. Many of them are in the voice of known characters (persona poems)- Jocasta, Ophelia, Cleopatra-or addressed to famous figures such as Homer. These pieces move back and forth between a kind of easy, mostly celebratory address to friends, the Summer Porches of the title and the unfinished meditations on public characters or statues or situations. A few, such as If Augustine Had Been a Woman or Why Call a Dog Brooklyn, He Asked turn the received world around, so that there is a playfulness and surprise the reader comes to expect.

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