About this title: The most salient feature of Baron Wormser's work is its empathy. As he says in "Poems, " Your soul's a canyon. And their souls too. Wormser conflates his soul with the reader's soul and thereby erodes conventional distinctions between "us" and "them." But Wormser seems most likely to identify with us when we feel excluded, estranged, awkward, when we resist the homogenizing effects of modern life. His speakers and subjects range from a lowly ant to the residents of a terminal children's ward to a naively idealistic hippie confronting the guardian of a missile silo in the Midwest. The voices ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781889330037ISBN:1889330035
Description: Good. F. Nice ex-library paperback with indicators. No spine crease. Light bumping and rubbing. Text is clean, unmarked, tight. Winner of the 1996 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SARABANDE BOOKS
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781889330044ISBN:1889330043
Description: New. Baron Wormser is the author of three previous collections of poetry: "The White Words" (Houghton Mifflin, 1983), "Good Trembling" (Houghton Mifflin, 1985), and "Atoms, Soul Music, and Other Poems" (Paris Review Editions, 1989). Born and raised in Bal... read more
Description: Fine. In very good condition with cover, spine and pages clean and intact. Neatly stored. International orders via air mail except large books. read more
Description: Fine. Fine dust jacket. Inscribed and Dated By the Author Fine/Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and Dated By the Author. Inscribed by the author and signed Baron and also signed in full on the title page. read more
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