Time Was, She Declares: Selected Poems / Adrienne Bond. - Tapa dura

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Adrienne Bond wrote poems that will endure, poems that grow in power when read again, their lines taking on the inevitability of great art. Though not every piece in this collection assembled after her death in April 1996 represents such an achievement, each demonstrates some aspect of her undeniable excellence.Adrienne's poems are, above all, accurate. She falsities nothing, though she does tell wonderful stories wholly drawn from her imagination. The emotional truth is always there; her voices are authentic, her characters convincing, her landscapes vividly realized -- all these the result of much work....These poems, though often irresistibly nostalgic, never lapse into sentimentality, never ask the reader's indulgence, never romanticize....