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Like a Beggar

✍ Scribed by Ellen Bass

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 65 KB
Category: Fiction
City: Port Townsend, Washington
ISBN: 1619321327

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✦ Synopsis

Featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac

"Ellen Bass's new poetry collection, Like a Beggar , pulses with sex, humor and compassion."--The New York Times

"Bass tries to convey everyday wonder on contemporary experiences of sex, work, aging, and war. Those who turn to poetry to become confidants for another's stories and secrets will not be disappointed."--Publishers Weekly

"In her fifth book of poetry, Bass addresses everything from Saturn's rings and Newton's law of gravitation to wasps and Pablo Neruda. Her words are nostalgic, vivid, and visceral. Bass arrives at the truth of human carnality rooted in the extraordinary need and promise of the individual. Bass shows us that we are as radiant as we are ephemeral, that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection. By the collection's end--following her musings on suicide and generosity, desire and...

✦ Subjects

POETRY -- American -- General

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