A01=Robert Louis Peters
Author_Robert Louis Peters
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Product details
- ISBN 9780871401038
- Weight: 175g
- Dimensions: 137 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 1975
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Through lyric and narrative sequences of great variety, Robert Peters becomes Ann Lee, the Mother Founder of the Shakers. He imaginatively relives her extraordinary life, from her childhood to her arrival with the first Shakers in American two hundred years ago. Visionary, full of craft and song, The Gift to Be Simple is a poem made of poems that stand on their own. Taken as a whole, they make a reading experience of unforgettable vividness.
Robert Louis Peters as born in northern Wisconsin in 1924. He is the author of Songs of a Son and nine other volumes of poetry and criticism. He taught in the writing program of the University of California, Irvine.
