Shift |
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| Author:
| Merrin, Jeredith |
| Series title: | Phoenix Poets Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-52063-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1996 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $99.00 |
Book Description:
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Shift traces the love between two women over several years and explores the intricacies of family relationships. Jeredith Merrin's poems, moving from ecstatic love lyrics to poems of familial affection and damage, to grave, more mature love poems, are psychologically loaded and technically sophisticated. These poems convey a wonderful sense of the sexual and social complexity of human relationships.
Shift traces the love between two women over several years and explores the intricacies of family relationships. Jeredith Merrin's poems, moving from ecstatic love lyrics to poems of familial affection and damage, to grave, more mature love poems, are psychologically loaded and technically sophisticated. These poems convey a wonderful sense of the sexual and social complexity of human relationships.