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The Book of Endings: Poems

✍ Scribed by Harrison, Leslie

Book ID: 109899747
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 47 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781629220635

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✦ Synopsis

The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence-the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.

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