Life Sentences

Life Sentences
ISBN-10
0814326293
ISBN-13
9780814326299
Series
Life Sentences
Category
Poetry
Pages
86
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Author
John Robert Reed

Description

Life Sentences speaks to the heart of human experience. In this collection of poems dealing largely with situations of physical and emotional tension or crisis, John R. Reed locates the individual in the midst of events that tend to reduce one's private life story to insignificance. He reveals the effort that we all make to resist that reduction through the imaginative construction of our own "life sentences".

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