A Newer Wilderness: PoemsInsomniac Press, 2007 - 111 páginas In Roseanne Carrara's A Newer Wilderness, the world's rich and compelling past buckles and swells beneath our feet, and its abiding influence rises like geothermal steam into the present. Powerful voices from history and legend issue forth and mingle with our familiar, circadian surroundings. These poems serve to remind us that our future need not cost us our past, that our capacity for intellect need not diminish our basic humanity, and that civilizations need not be built at the expense of the natural environment in which they thrive. |
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Página 40 - When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
Página 20 - Her letters to Aunt Cassandra (for they were sometimes separated) were, I dare say, open and confidential — My aunt looked them over and burnt the greater part, (as she told me) , 2 or 3 years before her own death — She left, or gave some as legacies to the Nieces — but of those that /have seen, several had portions cut out...