Like Memory, Caverns

Download or read book Like Memory, Caverns written by Elizabeth C. Dodd and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1992-11 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Memory, Caverns is an elegiac book, mourning losses from the personal to the planetary. Though personal in tone, these graceful, meditative poems reach insistently outward to the natural and social worlds, moving beyond today's confessionalism. In fact, the self keeps disappearing, as the world as it is seen seems to replace the seer. This poetry explores the tenuousness of each individual moment while affirming a necessary--if difficult--existence of the free spirit. Elizabeth Dodd writes a remarkably musical free verse, with her eye kept focused on the tangible significant detail of natural imagery.