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For Love of Common Words: Poems

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Availability:In StockContributor:Steve ScafidiSeries:Southern Messenger PoetsPublish date:2006-04-01Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807131374ISBN-10:807131377UPC:9780807131374Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.10 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SCQSPYSAYR

The scariest sentence in the English language is brief, threatening, and hopeful. It is deceptive, simple, and as common as water: anything is possible. This second collection by Steve Scafidi is haunted by the possible and "the bells of the verb to be" that "ring-a-ding-ding calling us / to the holy dark of this first / warm night of Spring." When anything is possible, Scafidi finds, horror is...

Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807131374ISBN-10:807131377UPC:9780807131374Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.10 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SCQSPYSAYR

Steve Scafidi is the author of the poetry collection Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer, winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize. His poem "The Egg Suckers" received the 2005 James Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah literary magazine. He is a cabinetmaker and lives with his family in Summit Point, West Virginia.


Publisher: LSU Press

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Steve Scafidi

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