The award-winning poet's second poetry collection includes several works of light verse and a free verse poem about Chopin's first year in Paris, but is dominated by rhymed and cadenced poems concerning significant historical lives and events...
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Winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry.
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2000.
The first warning passing through Thebes--
As small a sound
As a housefly alighting from Persia
And stamping its fo...