Ruefle's third volume of poetry is the co-winner of the 1988 Iowa Poetry Prize.
Aggregate of Disturbances: Poems (Iowa poetry prize)
โ Scribed by Glazer, Michele (Author)
- Publisher
- University Of Iowa Press
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 26 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780877458784
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Here, the author confronts the slipperiness of language and perception as she probes natural processes - the lives of insects, the uncertainty of love and the deaths of human beings. The poems negotiate between desire for something irrefutable and an uneasy bedrock of paradox.
โฆ Subjects
Poetry
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