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All we need of hell : poems / by Rika Lesser.
Author
Lesser, Rika
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Format
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Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 1995.
Description
xii, 87 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS3562.E837 A45 1995
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Bipolar disorder
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Women
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Psychology
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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poetry
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Summary note
"Rika Lesser through-composes her books of poems; they are not albums but unities. They are meant to be read in one sitting and can be fearfully intense. In Etruscan Things she followed the circular map of the Etruscan heavens. In All We Need of Hell she seeks to escape the locked boxes of psychiatric wards and medical categorizations. When she succeeds - and she must - it is through art to life." "These poems will inevitably be compared to those by other poets who have struggled with depressive illnesses. Rarely, however, does a poet address such topics as illness, mental illness, suicide, and death as singlemindedly as Lesser does here."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents
The Room
A Question of Belief
For the Record
Black Stones I
Black Stones II
Black Stones III
The Second Time
On Lithium: After One Year
On Lithium: After Two
Nepenthe
Other Lives
Black Stones IV: (First Sight)
Black Stones V: (From One to Another)
Black Stones VI: (Falling)
Escape Attempt
Shocking Treatment
A Valediction: Forbidding Moving
Matthew's Passion
Black Stones VII: (Others, Can wrestle
)
Black Stones VIII: (And were You lost, I would be
Black Stones IX: (And I, and Silence)
Black Stones X: (As yet but knock, breathe, shine ...)
On Lithium: The Third Year
White Stone
Black Stones XI: (Flight)
Love
Black Stones XII: (Care)
For Jean
Life: It Must Suffice Us
Black Stones XIII: (As light)
Black Stones XIV: (Past tense)
On Lithium: Extended Terms
Departures
The Other Life
For a Friend
For Elisabeth
September '92: Measures
Epilogue: Dodsdansen.
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ISBN
0929398858 ((cloth))
9780929398853 ((cloth))
0929398920 ((pbk.))
9780929398921 ((pbk.))
LCCN
94040015
OCLC
31610278
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