Blue Dusk
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| Author(s) | Madeline Defrees |
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| Subtitle | New & Selected Poems, 1951-2001 |
| Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
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| Concentrated, multi-layered, spliced with humor, and informed by her thirty-eight-year tenure as a Catholic nun (she left the order in 1973), these poems are a study in contrasts. DeFrees’s world refuses to be drawn in black and white, as she balances presence and memory, mind and body. Her poems achieve the quiet clarity of a woman constantly emerging. | |
Concentrated, multi-layered, spliced with humor, and informed by her thirty-eight-year tenure as a Catholic nun (she left the order in 1973), these poems are a study in contrasts. DeFrees’s world refuses to be drawn in black and white, as she balances presence and memory, mind and body. Her poems achieve the quiet clarity of a woman constantly emerging.
