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- Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (Collection)
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| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1978-00-00 | Louisiana State University Press |  |
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- Blurb:
- Joyce Carol Oates"s fifth volume of poems, like its predecessors, centers on her remarkable and paradoxical vision of the intense intimacy between the self on one hand and nature and history on the other. Whatever happens in nature -- whether in the physiological processes of the body, or in the vast processes of wind and water -- happens in history. This is the condition of mass technological modern society, and it is, in Oates"s vision, notably the condition of American society. Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money may well be the most substantial poetic work of the woman who, according to Newsweek "belongs to that small group of writers who keep alive the central ambitions and energies of literature." It is a culminating work -- one that augments the themes and craftsmanship of the poems of her previous four volumes. Its structure is a movement from what might be called the center of everyday selves outward into the mysterious metamorphoses of self in life and death, outward to the historical context of the self, and finally outward to the mystery of our disappearance into one another.