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Claiming kin / by Ellen Bryant Voigt.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 1943-2025
- Series:
- Wesleyan poetry program ; v. 83.
- The Wesleyan poetry program ; v. 83
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry, Modern--20th century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [1976]
- Summary:
- Poems devoted to family and the physical world. "Voigt writes with a Southerner's devotion to family and a naturalist's devotion to the physical world . . . a stunning first collection"-- Edward Hirsch, The Nation "First book of impressive technical and imaginative maturity."-Stanley Kunitz "Her poems are luminous."-Library Journal
- Contents:
- Tropics
- At thr Edge of Winter
- Animal Study
- Black Widow
- The Heart is the Target
- Delilah
- Preparation
- Snakeskin
- Southern Artifact
- American at Auschwitz
- Stork
- Suicides
- Dialogue: Poetics
- Song
- For S.
- Farm Wife
- The Wife Takes a Child
- The Handmaiden
- Gathering
- Birthday Sestina
- Claiming Kin
- Sister
- The Hen
- The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin
- Damage
- House
- The Letter
- April, 1945
- The Waning Moon
- Executioner
- The Victim
- The Burial
- The Marriage
- The Birth
- The Drowned Man
- Harvest
- The Quickening
- The Visit
- All Souls' Day.
- ISBN:
- 0819520837
- 9780819520838
- 0819510831
- 9780819510839
- OCLC:
- 2119342
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