CAMPO SANTO. Poems

Baton Rouge, Louissiana State Univ, Press, 1991,, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. first printing. Pages 63,octavo, hardcover, first printing. Book is in Fine condition; dust jacket spine sunned, else Very good. 082203A ISBN: 0-8071-1676-9

From Publisher:

Susan Wood draws on her own past to create poems that are remarkable for their depth and clarity, and for the stories they tell. In Campo Santo, she chooses grief over nothingness and constructs tales out of her own lost world, the retrieval system of memory.

Wood's lyrical narratives chart the intimacies and distances between people. She writes about the pleasures and sorrows of family relationships, about the death of her mother, about the agonies of race in a small town, about the inconsolabilities of grief and the consolations of poetry.

But for all the sorrows in these poems, there are also odd moments of joy and celebration the world caught and transfigured, recovered. "We all deserve some sweetness in the end," Wood tells us.

The poems in Campo Santo demonstrate Wood's confident mastery of poetic technique. With this collection she takes her place as a mature, accomplished poet.

Product Info

ISBN: 0807116769

ISBN-13: 9780807116760

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louissiana State Univ, Press, 1991,

Year: 1991

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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