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The Dead Alive and Busy (Phoenix Poets Ser.)
by Shapiro, Alan
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0226750515
- ISBN 13
- 9780226750514
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Trade Paperback. Fine. Inscribed By Author. The sixth book of poems by the winner of the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library; these poems deal with issues of personal identity as revealed by examining the intimate bonds of family life; they explore these familial relations in terms of the religious, social and literary contexts that inform them, delving into such universal themes as human frailty, illness and death, bereavement,and thwarted desires (with autograph card from Regulator Bookshop)
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- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000640
- Title
- The Dead Alive and Busy (Phoenix Poets Ser.)
- Author
- Shapiro, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226750515
- ISBN 13
- 9780226750514
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE, POETRY, POEMS
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