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Not Till We Are Lost

Not Till We Are Lost

Wenthe, William

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0807129046
ISBN13: 9780807129043
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Oct 31 2003
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.16 Depth: 8.42
Language: English

William Wenthe's second collection of poetry is a personal amplification of a passage from Henry Thoreau's Walden, Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. Beginning with the necessary dislocation and loss that accompany adulthood, these strong and moving poems tell a story of a man's losing his way in the midst of personal tragedies -- the death of his parents and the end of a marriage -- only to discover the true depth of his connection with others and ultimately with the divine. In a variety of free verse, traditional forms, and sonnets, the poet begins to reassess his life and his art and considers the possibility that language may distance us from the real as much as bind us to it.

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