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All We Saw: Poems

Anne Michaels
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Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist ( Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault ) and poet.

In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of." Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that "death . . . give / not only take from us." This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste, spare, figuratively modulated, and almost classical in its precision. In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers--so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other--Michaels embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. Love's sheltering understanding is a powerful presence in all the poems, with its particular imagery (the ringing fog, the white page of the bed), as is the shattering loss of its end. With Michaels, we enter a space that is "not inside / not dusk's / doorway," where memory might be kept alive.
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0451493095
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9780451493095
kindle Asin:
B01N20CUPQ

All We Saw: Poems

Anne Michaels
3.78/5 (292 ratings)
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Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist ( Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault ) and poet.

In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of." Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that "death . . . give / not only take from us." This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste, spare, figuratively modulated, and almost classical in its precision. In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers--so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other--Michaels embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. Love's sheltering understanding is a powerful presence in all the poems, with its particular imagery (the ringing fog, the white page of the bed), as is the shattering loss of its end. With Michaels, we enter a space that is "not inside / not dusk's / doorway," where memory might be kept alive.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
American First
Language:
ISBN10:
0451493095
ISBN13:
9780451493095
kindle Asin:
B01N20CUPQ

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