Author

Publication

1967 - Norton, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

19,000 words, Guess

Page Count

76 pages

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  • DDC811/.5/4
  • LCCPS3531.E827 S63

Description

"The death of a young child, the painful continuance of life in the shadow of that loss, the fear of forgetting, the reassertion of life in the bereaved--this is surely on of the hardest themes to write well about. Robert Peters has managed to do so, creating from the burden of loss a sequence of poems whose language, abjuring easy emotionalism, attains a cold, earthbitter, refreshing transparency like spring-water. Staying always close to the concrete and local ("No ideas but in things") he achieves the universal--a death tells us anew something we need to grasp concerning the human condition." --From the jacket of first edition of Songs for a Son--

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