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The Disappearing Trick /

In The Disappearing Trick, Len Roberts wrestles with the loss of loved ones--whether that loss be through death, a son moving away to college, or simply how people fade from our lives and memories. Hybrids of the narrative and lyric form, these poems are models of indirect statement that have, as Sh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Roberts, Len, 1947-2007
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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