Spine

by Michael Spence

Isolation and transformation are the central themes of The Spine: isolation caused by death, alien landscapes, and lost ideals; and the transformation, for good or ill, of those this isolation reaches. The people and creatures in "The Ones Consumed" become absorbed - figuratively or literally - by the world around them. Though the absorption often destroys them, the section opens and closes with poems which reveal that there can be compensation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091119889X
• ISBN13: 9780911198898
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.9"