Hardcover: 83 pages ISBN: 0-8173-0261-1
Paper: 83 pages ISBN: 0-8173-0262-X
University of Alabama Press
Out of print.
Paperback in stock at Open Books, A Poem Emporium.
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Blurbs:
"The craft and vision of these poems are extraordinary but what is shocking about this book is the poet's understanding of the order of things. Peggy Shumaker's poems have a sense for something in the outer world that is being powerfully displaced by something from the inner world-what I'm speaking of is felt in a family when a merciful death is both distanced and balanced with the ordeal of a welcome birth. What we have here finally is a book where experience turns into understanding-an exchange that is, for Shumaker, as natural and yet provoked as breathing itself."
-Norman Dubie
"Peggy Shumaker's poems ring with a bell-like clarity, not only through the desert air, but through the whole experience of men and women everywhere. Through this young woman's voice we learn of everyday people anew, as victims-and as victors transcending their commonality. Her poems are hosannas to humanity."
-Peter Wild
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