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Beginning with O

This is a book of letting go, of wild avowals, unabashed eroticism; at the same time it is a work of integral imagination, steeped in the light of Greek myth that is part of the poet's heritage and imbued with an intuitive sense of dramatic conflicts and resolutions, high style, and musical form.

Themes
writers
Setting
1970s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 87 pages
Form
poetry

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