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Something Shining: Poems
by Halpern, Daniel
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0375407332
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407338
- Seller
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Connell, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Knopf, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. New inventory which has been in storage since selling retail store several years ago. From front flap: " Now, with Something shining, his first collection of new poems in seven years, he gives us an ambitious, wide ranging mediation on birth, love, and maturity....."
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
- George Isbell
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011224
- Title
- Something Shining: Poems
- Author
- Halpern, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375407332
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407338
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 96
- Keywords
- poetry; prose ;
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George Isbell
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Connell, Washington
About George Isbell
General Inventory..Old, Rare, Scarce, Collectible, Most fields. Some New publisher Remainders..On Line Only.. Retired from retail trade and clearing out much inventory...Some has been in storage for 50+ years..
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