Fall

by Amy Newman

Book Overview

A single word holds a narrative of the human condition.

This new book by award-winning author Amy Newman explores as its formal structure the 72 definitions for the word "fall." These lovely, accessible poems span a narrative drama--from the creation of the world and the subsequent exile of its first inhabitants, through the downward movement of the human body in its surrender to illness and the world's gravitational pull, to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819567094
• ISBN13: 9780819567093
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up