Looking Out Looking in

by E.A. Markham

"Many of the poems address absent figures: a lost grandmother, a mother later to be lost, former lovers, schoolfriends, mentors. Typically they hold their interlocutors with verbally dextrous, digression-filled narrations that start in medias res, resist closure and defy summary. Their apparent anxiety about incompleteness or uncertainty of context is much more than a postmodern posture."--Times Literary Supplement Poetry Book Society Special Commendation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0856464147
• ISBN13: 9780856464140
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"