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Long For This World

Long For This World

Emily W. Pease

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Finishing Line Press
Año de edición:
2026
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Poesía
ISBN:
9798899906633
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None of us is 'long for this world,' the saying goes, so we may as well live with a due sense of wonder. In this collection of poems, to 'long for this world' is to be open to the unexpected, like a turtle on a runway or angel on a beach at night. The three magi cross the desert, following a star, and one of them is a 'fly queen' wearing pearls. A mother offers hard and daring advice, and a fancy neighbor keeps a pet raccoon. The speaker in these poems has enjoyed intimate desire as well as grief and loss, and when she witnesses a solar eclipse, filled with awe, comes to this conclusion: 'we are full and hollow/and vacant at last,/ just as we all suspected.' 6

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