The Andrew poems
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Author
Publication
1994 - Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Tex, Texas
Language
English
Word Count
21,500 words, Guess
Page Count
86 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1409150M
- ISBN-100896723194
- OCLC Control Number28065515
- OCLC Control Numberandrewpoems00wagn
- Library of Congress Control Number93017769
and 2 more
- Goodreads1595718
- LibraryThing492550
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3573.A3872 A53 1994
Description
One after another...Shelly Wagner's poems reach out and unstrap us; we're forced head-on into the pathos, the overwhelming beauty, the sense of unbearable loss. And as we read on, the only cushioning restraints are the beauty of language, the aesthetic and emotional impact of poetry (which intensify feelings even more, of course). What saves us, then, as reader? How can we bear it? Why should we try to cope with such loss, until we might have to? If Aristotle was right, a drama like this arouses our pity and fear: compassion, as we empathize; and fear, as we identify with and realize that the grief overwhelming the characters might happen also to us.
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