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Human rights : poems / by Joseph Lease.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS3562.E255 H86 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lease, Joseph.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bernstein, Charles, 1950- (former owner) (Bernstein Collection copy)
- Bernstein, Charles, 1950- (inscription, 7/19/1998) (Bernstein Collection copy)
- Lease, Joseph (autograph, 7/19/1998) (Bernstein Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 63 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Zoland Books, 1998.
- Summary:
- Both traditional and profoundly innovative, Joseph Lease's poems embody a complex emotional and psychological truth. A powerful storyteller, Lease captures his characters' unique inner lives, in a tone at once erotic, social, and mystical. Lease's poems encompass the broad spectrum of being human with unflinching courage.
- Contents:
- Michael Kohlhaas
- Essay on addiction
- Listen with pain
- Hammer
- Words like rain
- Creases
- The room
- Overshadowed by colors
- I can no longer live by thinking
- Ode
- "Footloose radish"
- Thief
- Apartment
- The night I met Sue she told me this
- Sitting on a wall outside Harvard Law School
- Postcard
- Psalm in which a glint of hot metal joins earth and sky
- Petition
- Slivovitz.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Bernstein Collection copy has inscription to Charles Bernstein from author.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lease, Joseph. Human rights.
- ISBN:
- 0944072852
- 9780944072851
- OCLC:
- 37903618
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