The City of Women
A Sequence of Poems and Prose
15 July 1994
Description
"Beautifully rendered.... Santos's greatest accomplishment here is not that he provides answers for the unanswerable, but that he convinces readers that love creates ‘words whose syllables we are laved in, / Whose meanings keep endlessly coming to pass.’” —Publishers Weekly
In a style that ranges through narrative, commentary, vignette, and verse, this is a sustained meditation on the nature and origins of erotic love. Sherod Santos, author of two previous volumes of verse, Accidental Weather and The Southern Reaches, explores the tumult of the inner life as he masterfully uncovers the world and underworld of those ever-shifting relations between a man and a woman.
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