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On the eighth day Adam slept alone : new poems / Nancy Boutilier.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.O8364 O5 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boutilier, Nancy, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Boutilier, Nancy, 1961- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 3 & 4)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 261 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Rosa, CA : Black Sparrow Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Nancy Boutilier's first Black Sparrow book, According to Her Contours (1992) landed her on the map as an important new writer. Nominated for a Lambda Award, the collection of stories and poems was hailed by Booklist as "an exciting exploration of relationships, gender identity, and the politics of clothes from a woman who chose high tops over high heels and has the courage to love her family and her lesbianism".
- The intense, disarming new poems of On the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone fearlessly address life's deepest riddles: "the unexamined life / is not worth / living. / That's Plato / but "expunge" is one word you can live with / believe it or not/ things never lost have / been found..". Childhood, memory, love, death, "the cosmic question mark" -- all the old imponderables are pursued again here, in limber, lucid lines that go directly to the source, bringing back invigorating news.
- Notes:
- "This first edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 200 hardcover trade copies; 100 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 22 signed copies lettered A-V have been handbound in boards by Earle Gray"--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is hardcover edition.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is paperback edition.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 is hardcover edition, signed by the author, no. 22.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 4 is handbound in boards, signed by the author, lettered O.
- ISBN:
- 1574231324
- 1574231340
- 1574231332
- OCLC:
- 43648710
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