A01=Elizabeth Spires
Author_Elizabeth Spires
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393316285
- Weight: 109g
- Dimensions: 142 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 1997
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of a 1996 Whiting Award. In her fourth collection of poems Elizabeth Spires addresses the elemental subjects of life and of literature: birth, death, creation, and intimations of immortality. The first section focuses on the experiences of conception, pregnancy, and childbirth from the points of view of both mother and child. The second section offers a reversal and reply in which the poems move out into a divided and divisive world. These poems are distinguished by an immaculate lyricism, a pristine sense for the natural world and the rhythms of language.
Elizabeth Spires is the author of seven poetry collections, including Worldling and The Wave-Maker. Her poetry has appeared in the Atlantic and The New Yorker, among other publications. A professor at Goucher College, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
