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Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist (Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault) and poet.
In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: \"what love makes us capable of, and incapable of.\" Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that \"death . . . give / not only take from us.\" This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste, spare, figuratively modulated, and almost classical in its precision. In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers--so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other--Michaels embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. Love's sheltering understanding is a powerful presence in all the poems, with its particular imagery (the ringing fog, the white page of the bed), as is the shattering loss of its end. With Michaels, we enter a space that is \"not inside / not outside: dusk's / doorway,\" where memory might be kept alive.
Editions of All We Saw
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780771059629
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780451493095
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780451493118
- EBook
- ISBN 9780771059636
- EBook
- ISBN 9780451493101
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Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist (Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault) and poet.
In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: \"what love makes us capable of, and incapable of.\" Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that \"death . . . give / not only take from us.\" This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste, spare, figuratively modulated, and almost classical in its precision. In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers--so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other--Michaels embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. Love's sheltering understanding is a powerful presence in all the poems, with its particular imagery (the ringing fog, the white page of the bed), as is the shattering loss of its end. With Michaels, we enter a space that is \"not inside / not outside: dusk's / doorway,\" where memory might be kept alive.
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Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist (Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault) and poet.
In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: \"what love makes us capable of, and incapable of.\" Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that \"death . . . give / not only take from us.\" This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste, spare, figuratively modulated, and almost classical in its precision. In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers--so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other--Michaels embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. Love's sheltering understanding is a powerful presence in all the poems, with its particular imagery (the ringing fog, the white page of the bed), as is the shattering loss of its end. With Michaels, we enter a space that is \"not inside / not outside: dusk's / doorway,\" where memory might be kept alive.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in All We Saw?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Poetry / Poems
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book All We Saw?
Anne Michaels
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All We Saw is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780771059629) and hardcover(ISBN 9780451493095) and paperback(ISBN 9780451493118) and ebook(ISBN 9780771059636) and ebook(ISBN 9780451493101)
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