Elizabeth Arnold. Chicago: Universi...
Elizabeth Arnold. Chicago: University of Chicago Pres 1999 Elizabeth Arnold's The take in opens with quotes from Heraclitus and Emily Dickinson: couple pagans whose gods were capricious, violent and barely real. This first appearance poetry collection charts the author's try with cancer, and it comes from the premise that everything worth grasping - in language and in life - is too fluid to detain for long. Arnold's illness does not appear as anything so solid as a metaphor; rather, it generates questions that are not quite answerable - or, as she inflicts it, "not quite ice
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