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Something Shining: New Poems
by Halpern, Daniel
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375407332
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407338
- Seller
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. clean, unmarked copy.
Synopsis
Widely praised for his earlier collections, Daniel Halpern has grown steadily in stature and attainment. Now, with Something Shining, his first collection of new poems in seven years, he gives us an ambitious, wide-ranging meditation on birth, love, and maturity, marking a turning point in both his life and his work. These beautifully crafted poems explore relations between lovers, between friends, between fathers and children. Written by the light of a young daughter's presence, in the distinctive lyrical language that Ted Hughes described as "so free and effortless and unerring," these poems ponder the fading of the body and the struggle that consciousness wages to keep the self afloat. And into this intimate world also enter a surprising array of characters: ancient Chinese poets and modern Cuban musicians, Charlie Parker, Chekhov, and the dervish mystic Rumi. But it is the poet's awareness of his own frailty ("the days run out--no longer oneself," he writes in "Fugue"), that, together with the extraordinary beauty he discovers in environments familiar and exotic, unifies this collection. The work of a poet at the top of his form, Something Shining confirms Halpern's place in our national literature.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Murphy-Brookfield Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 368133
- Title
- Something Shining: New Poems
- Author
- Halpern, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0375407332
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407338
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Murphy-Brookfield Books
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About Murphy-Brookfield Books
Murphy-Brookfield Books has been in business in Iowa City, Iowa, since 1980, specializing in scholarly used books in the Humanities. Areas of interest are Philosophy, Women\'s Studies, History, Literary Criticism, University Press.
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