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Paperback Curses and Wishes: Poems Book

ISBN: 0807137766

ISBN13: 9780807137765

Curses and Wishes: Poems

(Part of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Series)

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The unusual voice encountered in Curses and Wishes carries a quiet, slightly elevated conversational tone, which flows from intimate secrets to wider social concerns. The poet has faith in economy and trusts in images to transfer knowledge that speech cannot. In Curses and Wishes the short, simple lines add up to a thoughtful book possessed with lyrical melancholy, a harmony of sadness and joy that sings: "May happiness be a wheel, a lit throne, spinning...

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