Too Bright to See & Alma: Poems

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Graywolf Press, 2002 - Poetry - 132 pages
Linda Gregg's first two books - Too Bright to See & Alma - are, at long last, available again-this time in a single volume. In this book, we witness the awakening of one of the finest American poets of her generation.

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Contents

We Manage Most When We Manage Small
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A Game Called Fear
6
The Girl I Call Alma
7
Copyright

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Too Bright to See: Poems
Linda Gregg
Snippet view - 1981

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Aegean Alma Aphrodite apples arms beauty birds body bones bright cicadas color comes COPPERHEAD crying Custard dark dead DEATH WANTS deer dirt dream eucalyptus everything eyes face feel feet ferns fig tree fish flesh flowers garden geese ghosts goat goes grass GREECE GREGG ground grow hair hands happy heart hills hold invisible keep knew kore leaves lifted light LILITH LINDA GREGG lived lizard loneliness look lovers Marriage moon morning mountain mouth move night peonies pomegranates poplar PRESSURE AGAINST EMPTINESS quiet rabbit rain raspberry remember river road rocks salmon sandstone Saskia scythes shine Sigismundo silent sing SKYLORD sleep smell snake snow soft song sound Spider standing stayed stone summer sunrise sweet talking tell things touching turn walk watching wind window winter woman women Woodchucks

About the author (2002)

Linda Gregg was born in Suffern, New York on September 9, 1942. She received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from San Francisco State University. She became a poet. She published several collections of poetry including Too Bright to See, Alma, Sacraments of Desire, Chosen by the Lion, Things and Flesh, and In the Middle Distance. All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems received the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award. She also received the Whiting Writers' Award, the Sara Teasdale Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize, and numerous Pushcart Prizes. She died on March 19, 2019 at the age of 76.

Bibliographic information

TitleToo Bright to See & Alma: Poems
AuthorLinda Gregg
Editionreprint
PublisherGraywolf Press, 2002
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 6, 2008
ISBN1555973574, 9781555973575
Length132 pages
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Poetry / American / General
  
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