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Whitethorn : Poems /

The pervasive theme throughout Whitethorn is that human suffering may be irremediable, yet in nature and language one may find a key to unlock the mysteries of sorrow. Osherow searches for that cipher by exploring a range of suffering, from the personal to the historical and cultural. In the poem ô...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Osherow, Jacqueline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; I; Poem for Jenne; Proust on the Slow Train from Grosseto; Reading The Makioka Sisters on the Sidney / Anacortes Ferry; Camouflage (Useless Bay, Whidbey Island); Autumn Cottonwood; Autobiographical: Another Draft; Sonnets from The Song of Songs; Snow in Umbria; Tulip Ode; Moon Sonnet; Jenne's Rose; Paestum Thunderstorm, Twenty Years On; Cherries; Self-Portrait with Lilacs; II; Orders of Infinity; Villanelle on the Oldest Known Piece of Writing; Whitethorn; Western Red Cedar: Missing Psalm; Variations on Variations; Flanders Sonnet; In a Storm, Revisiting Isaiah.