Boutilier, Nancy
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Product Description Lambda Book Award in Poetry 2001 FinalistThese intense, disarming poems fearlessly address life's deepest riddles: "believe it or
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not / things never lost have / been found..." Childhood, memory, love, death, "the cosmic question mark"―all the old imponderables are pursued again here, in lucid lines that go directly to the source, bringing back invigorating news. Review On the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone is a poetry collection that renews one’s sense of all that is good and beautiful. There are many, many wonderful love poems here. Boutilier’s observations are clear and often humorous, as in her pointed poem ‘When Straight Women Flirt . . . With Me.’ Witty . . . heartfelt . . . downright inspirational . . . an antidote to angst-ridden political dread."―San Francisco Bay Guardian About the Author Nancy Boutilier is a poet, reporter, columnist, and professor at Oberlin College.
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