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Something Shining: Poems
by Halpern, Daniel
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375407332
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407338
- Seller
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Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Knopf, 1999-11-15. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. 1999 Knopf hard cover - 1st edition 1st printing - signed and inscribed by author on 1/2 title page - slight foxing to top closed page edge - otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy
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
- Twice Sold Tales
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2305020006
- Title
- Something Shining: Poems
- Author
- Halpern, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375407332
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407338
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999-11-15
- Size
- 6x0x9
- X weight
- 16 oz
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