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The alphabet not unlike the world: poems

✍ Scribed by Katrina Vandenberg

Book ID: 100396081
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 143 KB
Category: Fiction
City: Minneapolis
ISBN: 1571314466

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In her accomplished second collection of poems, Katrina Vandenberg writes from the intersection of power and forgiveness. With poems named for letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and employing such innovative forms as the ancient ghazal, Vandenberg deciphers the seemingly indecipherable in this extraordinary becoming of self through language. Moving between the physical and the abstract, the individual and the collective,Alphabet Not Unlike the Worldunearths meaning—with astonishing beauty—from the pain of loss and separation.

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