2001
ISBN 1-880713-26-8
$12.95
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Semiramis If I Remember
by Keith Waldrop
Semiramis If I Remember is a quietly remarkable meditation
on life and death. Poet Keith Waldrop has seen much of both, and here
turns his attention to all that can get lost in living, attempting to
evoke and remember what remains. Waldrop's 16th book of poetry offers
the reader instants from the whole life of the poet, from his earliest
childhood memories and encounters with the possibilities of language to
his later years of reflections, dreams, and vigorous struggles with darkness.
With their references to the gothic and a pervasive recognition of absence,
these are haunted poems. But whatever their sadness, they are haunted
not simply by thoughts of death but by a life that means more because
it passes, because its beauty is what slips away from us.
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