Headwaters

by Ellen Bryant Voigt

Book Overview

Rash yet tender, chastened yet lush, Headwaters is a book of opposites, a book of wild abandon by one of the most formally exacting poets of our time. Animals populate its pages--owl, groundhog, fox, each with its own inimitable survival skills--and the poet who so meticulously observes their behaviors has accumulated a lifetime's worth of skills herself: she too has survived. The power of these extraordinary poems lies in their recognition that all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393350002
• ISBN13: 9780393350005
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.0"