Like Memory, Caverns

This is an elegiac book, mourning losses from the personal to the planetary. Though personal in tone, these graceful, meditative poems reach insistently outward to the natural and social worlds, moving beyond today's confessionalism.

About the author

Elizabeth Dodd currently teaches English at Kansas State University. She is the author of The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H.D., Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop & Louise Gluck.

Summary

Though personal in tone, these meditative poems reach insistently outward to the natural and social worlds, moving beyond today's confessionalism. This title explores the tenuousness of each individual moment while affirming a necessary - if difficult - existence of the free spirit.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Dodd, Elizabeth C Dodd, Elizabeth C. Dodd, Eva Golinger
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1992
• EAN: 9780814718551
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-1855-1
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 209 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 127 g
• Series: Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for E; Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for E
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies