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Author:	Linda Gregerson	Publisher:	Mariner Books
ISBN-10:	0395822890	Category:	POETRY
ISBN-13:	9780395822890		--
Format:	Softcover		--
Publication Year:	1998	Condition:	Good
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The second book of poems by Linda Gregerson, who writes about the body and the spirit in sickness and health.
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Height:	9.0 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
Thickness:	0.2 in.
Weight:	5.6 oz.

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Mark Strand called these poems "among the very best being written." Bravely exploring the ways in which we encounter mortality, they emphasize the resourcefulness of the human spirit, the intelligence of the body, the abundant beauty of the created world. Devotional, even celebratory in their cadence, they move with the gravity of high art. This second book of poems by a powerful, compassionate, and fiercely intelligent poet bravely explores the ways in which we humans encounter mortality: the assaults of disease and bodily harm, the cruel inequities of material and psychic well-being, domestic treachery, self-slaughter, failures of mind. Linda Gregerson's work emphasizes the resourcefulness of the human spirit, the intelligence of the body, the abundant beauty of the created world. What readers will love about these poems - many of them centered on young children - is the way they combine straightforwardness and complexity. Gregerson is not an ordinary believer, but the rhythms and icons of faith pervade her work. Readers will also relish the music of these poems and the remarkable use of line breaks and patterns on the page, which give her poems aesthetic as well as moral authority. These are not light verses, far from it, but they are unashamedly poems of praise. Devotional, even celebratory in their cadence, they move with the gravity of high art.
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Gregerson's second collection (Fire in the Conservatory, 1982) delivers a one-two punch: what you see is not what you get. Her long poems, most with numbered sections, move airily down the page in uneven, unrhymed triplets. The pace suggests a breeziness of spirit until the weight of the content and the directness of the voice set in. "The world's a world of trouble, your mother must/ have told you/ that. Poison leaks into the basements// and tedium into the schools." The reader might quickly tire of these poems burdened by childhood death and disease, crime and violence, and steeped in "the salt of grief." But Gregerson never just tells a gruesome story; instead, she finds a starting point from the nightly news or a visit to the dentist to examine fears and philosophies, plotting unpredictable courses. In "Target," she muses on the vulnerability of a newborn being bathed in the sink, the mother, "sick/ with fear/ for the pulse in the scalp" and ends by quoting a 22-year-old Serb prisoner who reports to a journalist: "I am happy/ to kill a child crossing the street with his mother./ There is something so fantastic on the mother's face." Gregerson's command of technique is reason enough to enter this dark poetical landscape, where the space-filled lines give often startling lift to the material's weight. (Nov.) Lopate

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The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep

Linda Gregerson

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Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	0395822890
Publication Date:	1998-02-02
Publisher:	Mariner Books

Pages:	96
Height:	0.2000 inches
Width:	5.8000 inches
Weight:	0.3500 pounds

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