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First awakenings : the early poems of Laura Riding

by JACKSON, LAURA (RIDING)

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New York: Persea Books,. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1992. Hard Cover. 0892551798 . Edited with an introduction by Elizabeth Friedmann, Alan J. Clark, Robert Nye; preface by Laura (Riding) Jackson. Xvi,280 pages, cloth, dj, ex-library with usual library markings, lacks rear endpapers otherwise very good. From Library Journal: "Riding's demanding, idiosyncratic poems influenced some of this century's most notable writers (W. H. Auden was an admirer), but she renounced poetry at the peak of her success because she found it to be an inadequate medium for the expression of truth. This volume (the companion to her Collected Poems of Laura Riding , Persea Bks., 1980) contains recently discovered--and mostly unpublished--material written when Riding was in her early twenties. Her ear for unusual rhythmic effects, combined with a precociously cynical view of human relationships, results in ambitious poems that are dazzling in their technical virtuosity and strangely world-weary. The poet, whose "heart is a cold crisp cinder," frequently takes as her theme love's failure, how men and women, "moving in separate dark," are only "faintly aware how love travels . . ./ back and forth across a fen of misunderstanding." Riding's intellectually vigorous poems deserve to be read alongside those of her better-known modernist contemporaries." .

Bookseller: Military History Bookshop (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 19407
Format/binding: Hard Cover
Book condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0892551798
ISBN 13: 9780892551798
Publisher: Persea Books,
Place: New York
Date published: 1992
Size: 6 x 9 x 1 inches
LCCN: PS3519.A363A6 1992
Weight: 1.35 pounds
Keywords: FIRST, AWAKENINGS, LAURA, RIDING, POEMS, POETRY
Subjects: POETRY / General;

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