Like Memory, Caverns

by Elizabeth Dodd

Book Overview

Like Memory, Caverns is an elegiac book, mourning losses from the personal to the planetary. Though personal in tone, these graceful, meditative poems reach insistently outward to the natural and social worlds, moving beyond today's confessionalism. In fact, the self keeps disappearing, as the world as it is seen seems to replace the seer. This poetry explores the tenuousness of each individual moment while affirming a necessary--if difficult--existence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814718558
• ISBN13: 9780814718551
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"