Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: House of Anansi Press March 31, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 088784698X
ISBN-13: 978-0887846984
Product Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
Product Description
The Address Book is a collection of beautifully crafted poems of love and loss. They are united by bitter complaint and grief, feelings that are only fought off by music and intelligence. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, the poems achieve their effect through total immersion in the rich palette of human emotions, and a willingness to tap into "This whim / against what drifts to dark." The book's second half includes Heighton's versions of Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.
