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ISBN-10: 1931896062
ISBN-13: 9781931896061
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Publish Date: 04/01/2004
Dimensions: 8.44" L, 5.54" W, 0.27" H

Acts of Love

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Overview

In his third book of poetry, Edgar Gabriel Silex explores the ways love confronts us. Devastatingly honest, these poems begin with “children transported in confusions of love” and examine relationships within the family and with lovers, and “how our love, for our most precious things, is soiled with our shameful behaviors, by our acceptance of doubt and melancholia.” The general movement of the poems is affirmative, traveling from the pain of childhood trauma through understanding to the point where the narrator is able to break the cycle of violence and conclude “we will remember / everything in beauty.”

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"Edgar Gabriel Silex is a storyteller. His poems understand and relate the stories of our spirit, our history, our possibility, and they ask us to forgive ourselves. I believe him to be a wonderful poet. Wonderful."–Lucille Clifton
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Details

ISBN-10: 1931896062
ISBN-13: 9781931896061
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Publish Date: 04/01/2004
Dimensions: 8.44" L, 5.54" W, 0.27" H
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