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Gregg, Linda.

In the middle distance : poems / Linda Gregg.

Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, ©2006.

66 pages ; 23 cm

"In one poem in this emotional and spiritual collection, Linda Gregg asks, "It is clear why love / took me to the shore of death, / but why did it bring me back?" In the Middle Distance, Gregg's sixth book, explores up to and beyond the crossroads of devastation and desire. There, Gregg finds not only survival but also salvation--hard won, resilient, and meaningful. This collection brings Gregg's passion and intensity together with a new wisdom and vitality that is unmistakably original."--Publisher's website.

American poetry.

The Lightning Even If the Gods Look Down Purity Staying After Elegance The Intercontinental Hotel The Secret Life of New York Getting Value Marfa Plenty As Is Enter with Caution The Other Excitement The Otherness Changed or Cheapened Trying to Ripen Mother My Mother The Problem of Sentences Being Beauty Waiting The Presence in Absence Turn, Turn Guilty Having It Both Ways Fragments After the Fires Silence and Glare According to the Hour "They Cripple with Beauty and Butcher with Love" Searching for the Poem The Stories Are Strenuous Bamboo and a Bird Always Alone The Test Is Whether Anything Breaks Off When You Roll It Down Stairs Arriving Again and Again without Noticing Quietly Not Knowing the Rules I Do Not Need the Gods to Return Searching Nine Years Later Turning into Things Now I Understand The Singers Change, the Music Goes On It Goes Away The Light Continues The Alternative Real Romance Surviving Love Backroads What's Left It Is Our Shape I Am Speaking Of Clear Sky Goes Up Farther than What Can Be Seen Parian Marble Closest It Can Get to the Human Watching the Last Boat Whoever Highway 90

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