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Author Hadas, Rachel

Title Pass It On
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (85 pages)
Series Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
Princeton series of contemporary poets.
Contents Cover; I; II; Pass It on, III; Teaching the Iliad; Philoctetes; Pass It on, IV; Teacher Between Terms; Generations; III; Three Silences
Summary The poems in Rachel Hadas's new book are united by a common preoccupation with passage--passage variously construed. In Section I, the four seasons are glimpsed in turn through the lenses of several types of personal associations, especially parenthood. As spring gives way to fall and winter, separation looms; diverse kinds of temporary and permanent renewal come with spring, and the fifth poem in this section steps outside this cycle. In Section II, the phrase ""pass it on"" recalls the game ""telephone, "" in which a word is whispered by one speaker to another. Here the poems focus on trad
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Subject American poetry -- 20th century.
POETRY -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
American poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400859900
1400859905