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Although Eve may be seen as a symbol of the demonization of women, she shares many characteristics with the ancient mother-goddesses worldwide from whom her story derives. Like her predecessors, Eve brought both death and life to humanity. In some Judeo-Christian legends, she also persuaded God to allow humans to be resurrected. Annie Finch's poetry reveals an original and unforgettable poetic voice, one with a musical and passionate elegance. The different genres in Eve include a lyric sequence on ancient goddesses, a literary parody, a protest poem, and an original myth. When mother Eve took the first apple down/from the tree that grew where nature's heart had been/and came tumbling, circling, rosy, into sin/which goddesses were lost, and which were found?/What spirals moved in pity and unwound/across our mother's body with the spin/of planets lost for us and all her kin?/What serpents curved their mouths into a frown,/but left their bodies twined in us like threads/that lead us back to her? Her presence warms,/and if I follow closely through the maze,/it is to where her remembered reaching spreads/in branching gifts, it is to her reaching arms/that I look, as if for something near to praise.
Molly Peacock
Annie Finch's brilliance as a young poet lies in her view of the world as complex: her passionate examinations of family relationships, of family history, of the search to understand one's place in the world are underpinned by a syntax and a poetic design equally passionate and complex. This is a formidable first volume of poetry
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Although Eve may be seen as a symbol of the demonization of women, she shares many characteristics with the ancient mother-goddesses worldwide from whom her story derives. Like her predecessors, Eve brought both death and life to humanity. In some Judeo-Christian legends, she also persuaded God to allow humans to be resurrected. Annie Finch's poetry reveals an original and unforgettable poetic voice, one with a musical and passionate elegance. The different genres in Eve include a lyric sequence on ancient goddesses, a literary parody, a protest poem, and an original myth. When mother Eve took the first apple down/from the tree that grew where nature's heart had been/and came tumbling, circling, rosy, into sin/which goddesses were lost, and which were found?/What spirals moved in pity and unwound/across our mother's body with the spin/of planets lost for us and all her kin?/What serpents curved their mouths into a frown,/but left their bodies twined in us like threads/that lead us back to her? Her presence warms,/and if I follow closely through the maze,/it is to where her remembered reaching spreads/in branching gifts, it is to her reaching arms/that I look, as if for something near to praise.
Molly Peacock
Annie Finch's brilliance as a young poet lies in her view of the world as complex: her passionate examinations of family relationships, of family history, of the search to understand one's place in the world are underpinned by a syntax and a poetic design equally passionate and complex. This is a formidable first volume of poetry
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A child is ranging, like a young horse; a child is growing, like a gray mare. Read the first page New!
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A child is ranging, like a young horse; a child is growing, like a gray mare. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women by Annie Finch in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Heaven and Earth by Zen Master Chang Sik Kim on page 59
- The Encyclopedia of Scotland (Salt Modern Poets) by Annie Finch in Front Matter
- The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan on page 59
- Descent to the Goddess (Studies in Jungian Psychology) by Sylvia Brinton Perera on page 59
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