Worldling
24 September 1997
Description
Winner of a 1996 Whiting Award. In her fourth collection of poems Elizabeth Spires addresses the elemental subjects of life and of literature: birth, death, creation, and intimations of immortality. The first section focuses on the experiences of conception, pregnancy, and childbirth from the points of view of both mother and child. The second section offers a reversal and reply in which the poems move out into a divided and divisive world. These poems are distinguished by an immaculate lyricism, a pristine sense for the natural world and the rhythms of language.
Also By: Elizabeth Spires 
A Memory of the Future: Poems
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Zen-infused meditations on the limitations of memory, mortality, and the boundaries of human existence.
A Memory of the Future: Poems
E Book, 2018
Zen-infused meditations on the limitations of memory, mortality, and the boundaries of human existence.
The Wave-Maker: Poems
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The Wave-Maker: Poems
Hardback, 2008
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The Wave-Maker: Poems
E Book, 2008
A contemplative, witty new collection from a "jewel of a poet" (Los Angeles Times).