SUMMONS - POEMS (HARDCOVER) IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days In her fourth book of poems, Deborah Tall serves up, as Charles Simic remarks, "a huge feast of words and images." Spare, charged, eloquently complex, her poems distill emotion to its precipitate. In "Cottage by the Beach, Normandy, " loneliness is this: A dozen tulips/ erect in the centerpiece, / hold their allotment of empty air. In "Winter Solstice, " war yields, A hillside of markers, /a showroom of tombs./The bushes fruited with ice. Summons is a call to speak out -- in the face of violence, cruelty, and loss -- and a summoning up of the forces of nature and humanity that console. Features Summary Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, judge Charles Simic. Author Deborah Tall Publisher Sarabande Books Release date 20001101 Pages 88 ISBN 1-889330-49-3 ISBN 13 978-1-889330-49-5