Name: The Human Line, Paperback/Ellen Bass
Brand: Copper Canyon Press
Price: 79.99 RON
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"Poetry," writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, "is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It's the way I embody my love for the world." "The Human Line, " Bass' seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings attention to life's endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense of humor. She also faces many of the crucial moral dilemmas of our time--genetic engineering, environmental issues, continuous war, heterosexism--and grounds her vision in the small, private workings of the heart. ." . . When I get home, " "my son has a headache, and though he's" "almost grown, asks me to sing him a song." "We lie together on the lumpy couch" "and I warble out the old show tunes, " Night and Day . . . They Can't Take That Away from Me" . . . A cheap" "silver chain shimmers across his throat" "rising and falling with his pulse. There never was" "anything else. Only these excruciatingly" "insignificant creatures we love." Ellen Bass is co-author of the million-selling book "Courage to Heal." She lives and teaches in Santa Cruz, California.