Union: Poems (Paperback)

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From Publishers Weekly

Don Share's earnest, moving first volume, Union, represents the promising next stage in so-called Southern narrative poetry. Share writes clear, well-crafted page-long poems about romance, memory and separation ("our house tocks and ticks/ like an inherited clock whose hour hand sticks"). He may, however, achieve greater recognition for longer work (like "Pax Americana") in which his own stories join those of Memphis, Tennessee and of the Civil War's difficult, lingering guilt: "Where the United States ends/ and begins// The Mississippi is/ a long American wound." Fans of Rodney Jones, say, should read Share posthaste.
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"Few poets manage such dexterous and fresh music. Few books are as lovely or profound." -- Alice Fulton

"I delight in the precision of these chiseled poems and in the sizeable, important ambition of Share's imagination." -- David Baker

"Share's poems belong both to earth and to air...Like his frozen winter branches, they both 'flex and sing.'" -- Rosanna Warren

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Product Details

• Paperback: 60 pages
• Publisher: Zoo Press; 1 edition (December 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970817770
• ISBN-13: 978-0970817778
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,302,489 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Full of Heart, April 2, 2003

By A Customer

Readers who are familiar with Don Share's remarkable translation of Miguel Hernandez might expect Share's own poems to be rich with feeling and intelligence. They won't be disappointed. The searching, sometimes searing voice in these poems invokes a speaker who takes his material from all the layers of a profoundly felt life. The combination of personal history and mystery, along with the paradox of history as a whole create echoes that inform and haunt these poems. I read this book and felt challenged to think more deeply about the larger world around me and to hold more dear the details of the life I live.