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Conversation with Murasaki

Conversation with Murasaki

Tom Lowenstein

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Shearsman Books
Año de edición:
2009
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781848610651
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In contrast to the long, trans-cultural narratives of ’Ancestors and Species’, Tom Lowenstein’s new poetry is pared down in this volume to the briefest of utterances. A long expensive journey. The landscape // grown stranger. A space at the end // where there’s no more to interpret.

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