Or to Begin Again

by Ann Lauterbach

Ann Lauterbach's ninth work of poetry, Or to Begin Again, takes its name from a sixteen-poem elegy that resists its own end, as it meditates on the nearness of specific attachment and loss against the mute background of historical forces in times of war. In the center of the book is a twelve-part narrative, "Alice in the Wasteland,"inspired by Lewis Carroll's great character and T.S. Eliot's 1922 modernist poem. Alice is accosted by an invisible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143115200
• ISBN13: 9780143115205
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher