Barter: Poems

by Ira Sadoff

Book Overview

Ira Sadoff's new volume of poems opens with a quotation from Rilke: "But because truly being here is so much; because everything here / apparently needs us, the fleeting world, which in some strange way / keeps calling us. . . ." The poetry collected here is a response to this call.

Rooted firmly in the "fleeting world," Sadoff's poems find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. The poems in Barter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252071204
• ISBN13: 9780252071201
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.4"