Placebo Effects: Poems

by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and Jeanne Marie Beaumont

Book Overview

"This collection of beguiling poems . . . takes as its avenue into experience the palpable, quotidian objects of the intimate environment. A barometer, an arrangement of flowers, a vase, a carpet, a pyramid of oranges in a city marketplace are seen and then entered as one might enter the action of a film. . . . There is something of the child's wondrous way of seeing the world that electrifies." Boston Globe "Jeanne Beaumont's poems are smart and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393318915
• ISBN13: 9780393318913
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"