Worldling

by Elizabeth Spires

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Winner of a 1996 Whiting Award. In her fourth collection of poems Elizabeth Spires addresses the elemental subjects of life and of literature: birth, death, creation, and intimations of immortality. The first section focuses on the experiences of conception, pregnancy, and childbirth from the points of view of both mother and child. The second section offers a reversal and reply in which the poems move out into a divided and divisive world. These poems are distinguished by an immaculate lyricism, a pristine sense for the natural world and the rhythms of language.
  • ISBN10 0393316289
  • ISBN13 9780393316285
  • Publish Date 24 September 1997 (first published 17 June 1995)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 76
  • Language English