Human Line

Name: Human Line
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ISBN: 9781556592553

ISBN-10: 1556592558

ISBN-13: 9781556592553

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ellen Bass

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"Poetry," writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, "is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It's the way I embody my love for the world." The Human Line, Bass' seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings attention to life's endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense of humor. She also faces many of the crucial moral dilemmas of our time-genetic engineering, environmental issues, continuous war, heterosexism-and grounds her vision in the small, private workings of the heart. . . . When I get home, my son has a headache, and though he's almost grown,…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Sleeping in my mother's bed


Twilight from the window of my mother's hospital room


On the air


My father's day


My mother's clock


Eating the bones


Last night


The end


Angels


Ritual


My mother's painting


Asking directions in Paris


Gate C22


Discovering fire


Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh


Poem not for my son


Birdsong from my patio


Evolution


The human line


Dead butterfly


Subway in Madrid


Screaming


A child is born


If you knew


At the end of the Cenozoic era


I wake thinking about depleted uranium


When the young geneticist was asked, "aren't you worried about the implications of your work?" with a toss of her sun-streaked hair, she declared, "no, not at all. I can't wait to fuck a clone"


God's grief


The moment I knew I shouldn't have married my husband


Lost dog


Is you is


MIKE


In praise of four-letter words


Sad bitch


The woman who killed my cat


The big picture


Pray for peace


Giving rocks to rocks


God of roots


Your hand


The chair


Don't expect applause


Winter Solstice