The Awful Rowing Toward GodIn this powerful new collection, one of our most dazzlingly inventive and prolific poets tackles a universal theme: the agonizing search for God that is part and parcel of the livse of all of us. As always, Anne Sexton's latest work derives from intense personal experience. She explores the dilemmas and triumphs, and the agony and the peace of her highly unorthodox faith, sharing all her findings with her readers as the quest progresses. Anne Sexton's poetry speaks to our most passionate yearnings for love and our deepest fears of evil and death. The uncompromising honesty and vividness of "The Awful Rowing Toward God" confirms her stature as one of the most compelling voices of our time. -- From publisher's description. |
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... push them off and when they get in the salad rolling in it like a dog , I pick each one out just the way my daughter picks out the anchovies . my bed In May they dance on the jonquils , wearing out their toes , laughing like fish . In ...
... push them off and when they get in the salad rolling in it like a dog , I pick each one out just the way my daughter picks out the anchovies . my bed In May they dance on the jonquils , wearing out their toes , laughing like fish . In ...
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... push the moon around like a boiled yam . The Milky Way is their hen with her many children . When it is night the cows lie down but the moon , that big bull , stands up . However , there is a locked room up there with an iron door that ...
... push the moon around like a boiled yam . The Milky Way is their hen with her many children . When it is night the cows lie down but the moon , that big bull , stands up . However , there is a locked room up there with an iron door that ...
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... pushing back and forth in it , and some love . As it has been said : Love and a cough cannot be concealed . Even a small cough . Even a small love . So if you have only a thin wire , God does not mind . He will enter your hands as ...
... pushing back and forth in it , and some love . As it has been said : Love and a cough cannot be concealed . Even a small cough . Even a small love . So if you have only a thin wire , God does not mind . He will enter your hands as ...
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