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University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of South Carolina Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

University of South Carolina Press, 2000-04-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New. My lover tells me I am like this place./I tell him what I miss: the slap of leaves/on skin and air that's like a damp embrace. The poems of this debut have a Cinderella-like innocence, transforming ugliness into beauty and waving the wand of well-crafted metaphor over all they encounter. The horrific suicide of a grandfather, a mother's cancer, the mourning for a stillborn child, the potential foreclosure of a neighbor's farm are all recounted with a refined clarity. Yet through it all, de los Santos manages to frame life's traumas with a voice that can seem borrowed from the Stage Manager in Our Town: Some years/were fair, but most were bad./The taxes, worse than weevil, tried/to take each dime she had. However, there are also poems, such as Io's Gift, that evoke, through their subtlety and sensuality, the pleasures of the ever-changing consciousness of the female body: I learned myself, bit/ by bit, or maybe I/ should say I dawned/ upon myself, a slow… Leer más

Univ of South Carolina Pr, 2000. Paperback. New. 79 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.25 inches.

Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A.: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Thin trade paperback, glossy wrappers with color-illustration of woman covered with words on front wrapper, small b/w photo of poet on back wrapper, praise at top back from Edward Hirsch, 79 pages of poems plus catalog. Tiny light crease to top tips of pages. Light wear at top front tip. Fine.

University of South Carolina Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.