Intervale: New and Selected Poems

by Betty Adcock

Book Overview

With a penetrating eye and a deep and spiritual intelligence, Betty Adcock writes poems that range from elegy to dark humor as they confront both loss and possibility. Intervale, selections from her first four books plus a new collection, traces the continuity of her vision and shows that lyric intensity can bring light to even the most obdurate darkness. Moving from the original loss of a world at her mother's death during the poet's sixth year to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807126659
• ISBN13: 9780807126653
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

excellent work

Betty Adcock's poetry is truly wonderful. She writes with clarity, grace, humor, and anyone who reads her poems, can't help but love them. This book has some of the best poems written, like "Southbound" and "Voyages". This book is a must for every person who loves southern poetry, and I recommend it for anyone who loves poetry.