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Battles and Lullabies
Richard Michelson
Cloth978-0-252-03061-1
$40.00
Paper978-0-252-07303-8
$18.95
| Pub Date: | 2006 |
| Pages: | 96 pages |
| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 8 in. |
An ambitious poetry of love and witness
With his father gunned down in a petty robbery and his aunt haunted by the threats of the Gestapo, Richard Michelson's experiences growing up in Brooklyn were far from ordinary, yet they remain all too common--too much a part of ongoing violence--to be dismissed as merely private events, safely past. In Counting to Six Million he writes out memory, anxiety, and grief, worry over his wife and children, and the recurring clashes between love and cruelty that test wisdom with suffering, day after day.
Richard Michelson is best known as an author of books for children, including Ten Times Better, Grandpa's Gamble, and his newest, Happy Feet. He is the recipient of the Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry, the New Letters Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize. He is also the author of Tap Dancing for the Relatives and Masks. His poems have appeared in New Letters, Poetry Northwest, the Norton Introduction to Poetry, and other anthologies.
Series:
Illinois Poetry Series
Subjects:
Poetry
