A Memory of the Future: Poems

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ISBN-10: 0393358291
ISBN-13: 9780393358292
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 06/23/2020
Dimensions: 4.50" L, 6.10" W, 0.40" H

A Memory of the Future: Poems

byElizabeth Spires

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In this Zen-infused and meditative collection, critically acclaimed poet Elizabeth Spires reflects on memory, mortality, and the boundaries of human existence. Inspired by the tradition of poetic interest in Zen, Spires explores selfhood and the search for a core identity, interrogating the divide between the social persona and the artist’s secret self. The poems in A Memory of the Future ask the unanswerable questions that become more pressing in the second half of life: How are we changed by the passage of time? How does memory define and shape us?

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The spare, sly lines in A Memory of the Future are a reminder that the game of a poem is sometimes better advanced by underplaying.–David Orr "New York Times Book Review"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393358291
ISBN-13: 9780393358292
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 06/23/2020
Dimensions: 4.50" L, 6.10" W, 0.40" H
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