These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, are among her greatest ever. Whether writing about her teenage self, microscopic creatures, or the upsides to living on Earth, she remains a virtuoso of form, line, and thought. From the title poem: I can't speak for elsewhere, but here on Earth we've got a fair supply of everything. Here we manufacture chairs and sorrows, scissors, tenderness, transistors, violins, teacups, dams, and quips...Like nowhere else, or almost nowhere, you're given your own torso here, equipped with the accessories required for adding your own children to the rest. Not to mention arms, legs, and astonished head.
- ISBN10 054736461X
- ISBN13 9780547364612
- Publish Date 26 October 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 October 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English