An Atlas of the Difficult World

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An Atlas of the Difficult World (Magill Book Reviews)

In AN ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD, America’s preeminent feminist poet and critic offers twenty-five poems written between 1988 and 1991. Visionary in content, elegiac in tone, and Whitmanesque in scope, the poems divide into two principal sections. The first consists of the thirteen-part title poem, which maps the physical and spiritual landscape of the United States, crisscrossing the country to capture its divergent elements and forge a link between the author’s personal past and the country’s current social and moral state. Much of the material focuses on the death of...

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