Embryos & Idiots
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This is poetry both luscious and rigorous.-Lynn Emanuel
This latest collection from the young but already established luminary Larissa Szporluk is cause for celebration. Szporluk has proven once again that she not only deserves her elevated status in the poetry world, but reinvents and advances it with each new collection.This is spare, sly, seductive, and haunting poetry that resonates long after the rustle of the page. Szporluk has an uncanny ability to hone her words until their edges slice like small, deep paper cuts, whittling away at the human experience, searching for the truth of things.
Despite her three previously publ
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Manufacturer: Tupelo Press
Release date: 30 April 2007
ISBN-10 : 1932195521 | ISBN-13: 9781932195521
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Release date: 30 April 2007
ISBN-10 : 1932195521 | ISBN-13: 9781932195521
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