The Difficult Wheel: Poems

by Betty Adcock

Book Overview

In The Difficult Wheel, Betty Adcock writes about time, about losing the past yet never being able to lose it. Hers are poems about vanishings, about grief, and about folly--our absurd attempt to cancel time and space, to abstract ourselves out of history and out of nature, and to distract ourselves from death's specter.

Adcock's verses fuse formal pattern with the chaos of rapid change, music with grief, the world's presences--deer,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807120235
• ISBN13: 9780807120231
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"