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Informationen zum Autor Carol Muske-Dukes is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her 1997 collection of poetry, An Octave Above Thunder , was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A poet, critical essayist, and fiction author, she lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext A sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today's finest living poets. Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose latest collection! Sparrow ! a haunting elegy for her late husband! was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally rich book of poems about how things double-by reflection! by reproduction! by severance. The poems embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul! divided by a legendary river! and move on to the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined-and the random intersection of the two. Lit by loss! these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief! curse and blessing! abandonment and rescue-they are two! and they are one. Zusammenfassung A sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today's finest living poets. Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose latest collection! Sparrow ! a haunting elegy for her late husband! was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally rich book of poems about how things double-by reflection! by reproduction! by severance. The poems embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul! divided by a legendary river! and move on to the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined-and the random intersection of the two. Lit by loss! these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief! curse and blessing! abandonment and rescue-they are two! and they are one.
