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Semiramis if I Remember (self-portrait as mask)
Semiramis if I Remember - self-portrait as mask Author:Keith Waldrop Semiramis If I Remember is a quietly remarkable meditation on life and death. Poet Keith Waldrop has seen much of both, and here turns his attention to all that can get lost in living, attempting to evoke and remember what remains. Waldrop's 16th book of poetry offers the reader instants from the whole life of the poet, from his earliest childho... more »od memories and encounters with the possibilities of language to his later years of reflections, dreams, and vigorous struggles with darkness. With their references to the gothic and a pervasive recognition of absence, these are haunted poems. But whatever their sadness, they are haunted not simply by thoughts of death but by life, a life that means more because it passes, because its beauty is what slips away from us.« less