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Whitethorn: Poems
Paperback
Series: Sea Cliff Fund
Publisher Price: $20.95
ISBN13: 9780807138359
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Feb 7 2011
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Utah Book Award
In Poem for Jenne, which opens Jacqueline Osherow's ambitious and challenging newcollection, a neighbor has planted larkspur and delphinium in the poet's yard and is tending them hoping to bring color and light into a household stricken by personal tragedy. As the bright blue, star-shaped flowers bloom for a second time, the poet writes, earth's reaching for her heavens, I for words / or any chink of rapture I can claim. The pervasive theme, in this poem and throughout Whitethorn, is that human suffering may be irremediable, yet in nature and language one may find a key to unlock the mysteries of sorrow.
In Whitethorn, a book of enormous scope and emotional intelligence, Osherow unflinchingly examines the pain of her own personal history and courageously probes the greater mystery of evil and suffering in the world.
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