The Fall: Poems

by D. Nurkse

Book Overview

In this elegant collection, D. Nurkse elegizes a lost father, a foreshortened childhood, and
a young marriage. From the drenched lawns of suburbia to the streets of Brooklyn, he delivers up the small but crucial epiphanies that propel an American coming-of-age and chronicles the development of a tender yet exacting consciousness. As the diversions of childhood prefigure the heartbreak of adulthood, Nurkse captures the exquisite sadness of each...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375709762
• ISBN13: 9780375709760
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.4"