While We're Here

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Title: While We're Here Author: Steven Henry Madoff ISBN: 9781889097374 Publisher: Hard Pr Inc Published: 1999 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: 1 Number of Pages: 70 C ondition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. Publisher Description: Poetry. WHILE WE'RE HERE signals the debut of a poetry that is startling and simple by turns, taking in the classical world and the contemporary with the rigor and inventiveness of its forms. All of them come./ They've gathered, it seems, because they're the half-formed/ and what is in them is terrible:/ deceit, sloth, greed, even Venus, the goddess of love,/ is terrible because she rides on the centaur's back. WHILE WE'RE HERE has a shapeliness, a concentrated structural coherence, rare at any time. About darkness ... it is itself a book of light. Heartening; a genuine achievement --Frank Bidart. Show more