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Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems

✍ Scribed by Kim Addonizio

Book ID: 111201655
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 84 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780393077933

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A lyrically intense fifth collection from “one of the nation’s most provocative and edgy poets” (San Diego Union-Tribune). With both passion and precision, Lucifer at the Starlite explores life’s dual nature: good and evil, light and dark, suffering and moments of unexpected joy. Whether looking outward to events on the world stage—the war in Iraq, the 2004 Asian tsunami—or inward at struggles with the self, these poems aim at the heart and against the feeling that Lucifer may have already won the day. from “Lucifer at the Starlite” Here’s my bright idea for life on earth: better management. The CEO has lost touch with the details. I’m worth as much, but I care; I come down here, I show my face, I’m a real regular. A toast: To our boys and girls in the war, grinding through sand, to everybody here, our host who’s mostly mist, like methane rising

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