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Letters to a Stranger: Poems
Paperback
Series: Re/View
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9781555975029
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Jun 24 2008
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas James
I will last forever. I am not impatient--
My skin will wait to greet its old complexions.
I'll lie here till the world swims back again.
--from Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
Thomas James's Letters to a Stranger--originally published in 1973, shortly before James's suicide--has become one of the underground classics of contemporary poetry. In this new edition, with an introduction by Lucie Brock-Broido and four of James's poems never before published in book form, this fraught and moving masterpiece is at last available.
Letters to a Stranger is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Mark Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.
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