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Nurkse, D.

 
9780375413650: The Fall: Poems

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Capturing the small but important epiphanies and defining moments that transform everyday American life, the award-winning poet explores the complexities of family relationships, from childhood to maturity, and offers a thoughtful look at mortality in a series of poems about illness in middle age.

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D. Nurkse is the author of seven books of poetry. He has received the Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Tanne Foundation award, and the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry. He has also written widely on human rights.

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In this elegant collection, D. Nurkse elegizes a lost father, a foreshortened childhood, and <br>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 “fall” that carries us further from our early innocence. In the book’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.

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ISBN 10:  0375709762 ISBN 13:  9780375709760
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004
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