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The Fall

By D. Nurkse

The Fall

By D. Nurkse

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In this elegant collection, D. Nurkse elegizes a lost father, a foreshortened childhood, and a young marriage. From the drenched lawns of suburbia to the streets of Brooklyn, he delivers up the small but crucial epiphanies that propel an American coming-of-age and chronicles the development of a tender yet exacting consciousness. As the diversions of childhood prefigure the heartbreak of adulthood, Nurkse captures the exquisite sadness of each small "fall” that carries us further from our early innocence. In the book's final section, the poet turns to face mortality with a series of stirring poems about illness in midlife. Throughout, Nurkse celebrates the sheer strangeness of our perceptions in a language that is both astute and surpassingly lyrical.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
114
Release Date:
2004-04-06
Publication Date:
2004-04-06
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375709762
ISBN13:
9780375709760
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
181 g
Height:
149 cm
Width:
213 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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