Leaving Xaia [Paperback]

D. Nurkse (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2000

Poetry

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From The New Yorker

"Nurske's rhetorical period, can be breathtaking"

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Leaving Xaia's voice escapes, the world of personal identity and replaces it with something eerie and compelling --an invented, believable world which perhaps has been written by what Breton called "the shadow mouth"--that other, that non-I, that most fascinating stranger each of us is, Once we hear it, Breton says. we can hear no other, A frightening idea: I am still trying to hear D. Nurkse's unique music fully, understand his world, because I am fascinated by it. -- Stephen Berg

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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Four Way; 1st edition (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884800262
• ISBN-13: 978-1884800269
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,194,903 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorites, March 10, 2001

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Charles M. Nobles (Tulsa, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leaving Xaia (Paperback)

This is one of my favorite books of contemporary poetry. It is difficult to describe except to say it speaks to the human condition but does so by somehow replacing personal identity with a world which is believable but you are not quite able to identify. Sufficiently confused? Read the book...you will see what I mean.