The Worrier: Poems

by Nancy Takacs

EXCERPT
What do you know?
How I hide my flaws.
What do you know?
How butterflies
sweeten themselves
opening and closing their wings together
in a little hill
on the beach.
--"The Worrier bed"

The Worrier poems, like a string of worry beads, are dialogues between two interior voices exploring topics as varied as fur coats, marriage, scars, vanishing bees, a silent film star, toads, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625342640
• ISBN13: 9781625342645
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher