
Looking for the Parade
Joan Murray(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 17. April 1999
Book
Hardback
136 pages
978-0-393-04727-1 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the 1998 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by Robert Bly. In this forceful collection, Murray observes the character of the passing century and some of the lives that have been part of it: the struggle of a woman against drought in South Africa; the death of a soldier on the march to Bataan. The narrator of these poems then turns inward --she examines what she's become: an artist at ease with her imaginative life, as well as a woman grown wise enough to see that most of her life lies behind her. In the last section, Murray stares at death as it coils inside a cage, and celebrates the courage that allows us to be its graceful opponents. In Looking for the Parade, Joan Murray establishes herself as one of our most moving and dramatic poets.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
293 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-04727-1 (9780393047271)
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Person
Joan Murray is the winner of the National Poetry Series and the Wesleyan New Poets Series competitions. She has also received awards from the Poetry Society of America. She lives in New York.