The Island

by Beth Murray

Poetry. In this book-length poem, Beth Murray creates a work of meditative insight and figural invention. THE ISLAND seduces with its calm insistence yet unsettles with its almost blinding sensitivities, in a complex movement between solitude and engagement, imagination and will. Alice Notley writes, "THE ISLAND is starkly lucid but mysterious: pain has changed the poet's perception of 'the world' into a more symbolic, more monolithic truth. Words...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097738232X
• ISBN13: 9780977382323
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Second Story Books
• Length: 94 Pages