The Kindness Colder Than the Elements

These are poems that play with and in language, take pleasure in the sounds of words, poems that are propelled by puns. Yet even with this priority of sound and language, there are tender moments when the language does more than delight in itself, as though it has stumbled across lyric meaning accid...

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Main Author: Charles Noble
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2011
Series:Mingling Voices
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