Lost August |
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| Author:
| Spalding, Esta |
| ISBN: | 978-0-88784-635-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1999 |
| Publisher: | House of Anansi Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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In Lost August, Esta Spalding builds an exquisite poetic honeycomb, bursting with rich imagery and lyrical texture. Each poem is a passage to the next; each reverberates with images and echoes of the others; each moves to the dazzling final sequence, "A Yellow Dress." Here is a lush world, freighted with loss, where the reader "rides into absence, province of the heart." Two poems in the collection have been recognized with national awards: "Bee Verse" won the National Poetry Contest...
More DescriptionIn Lost August, Esta Spalding builds an exquisite poetic honeycomb, bursting with rich imagery and lyrical texture. Each poem is a passage to the next; each reverberates with images and echoes of the others; each moves to the dazzling final sequence, "A Yellow Dress." Here is a lush world, freighted with loss, where the reader "rides into absence, province of the heart." Two poems in the collection have been recognized with national awards: "Bee Verse" won the National Poetry Contest in 1998 and "Aperture" won the Malahat Long Poem Contest in 1995.