An Animal of the Sixth Day

by Laura Fargas

There is such excitement and joy in the poems of Laura Fargas--a rush to embrace the earth, an exuberant "giddy greed" for life. "I like the voice, the spirit I find in her poems," says Walter McDonald. "She accepts and celebrates the rich possibilities and, even with the risks and limitations of all, insists that living on this earth is splendid." Grass the Fine Body Hairs of Earth My shorthand for it is passion is holy We can live inside the lilies-of-the-field...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896723607
• ISBN13: 9780896723603
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"