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The Fall

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The Fall

In this elegant collection, D. Nurkse elegizes a lost father, a foreshortened childhood, and
a young marriage. From the drenched lawns of suburbia to the streets of Brooklyn, he delivers up the small but crucial epiphanies that propel an American coming-of-age and chronicles the development of a tender yet exacting consciousness. As the diversions of childhood prefigure the heartbreak of adulthood, Nurkse captures the exquisite sadness of each small â€œfallâ€ that carries us further from our early innocence. In the bookâ€™s final section, the poet turns to face mortality with a series of stirring poems about illness in midlife. Throughout, Nurkse celebrates the sheer strangeness of our perceptions in a language that is both astute and surpassingly lyrical.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Author D. Nurkse
Binding Paperback
EAN 9780375709760
ISBN 0375709762
Label Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
NumberOfItems 1
NumberOfPages 112
PublicationDate 2004-04-06
Publisher Knopf
ReleaseDate 2004-04-06
Studio Knopf

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