Now in paperback: the "lovely and evocative book" (San Francisco Chronicle) of poems both new and old that celebrates a quarter century of passionate engagement with real life and its transformation into poetic form: the pull of faith and the poet's suspicion of transcendence, urban worlds and the m
Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems
โ Scribed by W.S. Di Piero
- Book ID
- 110801552
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 143 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307494443
- ASIN
- B00EMX8DQY
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โฆ Synopsis
Now in paperback: the โlovely and evocative bookโ (San Francisco Chronicle) of poems both new and old that celebrates a quarter century of passionate engagement with real life and its transformation into poetic form: the pull of faith and the poetโs suspicion of transcendence, urban worlds and the mysterious jazz of street language, desire and sexual need, love and loss.
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