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Lost alphabet

Lisa Olstein

200992 pagesabout 1–2 hours
2009
first published
  • 2009Copper Canyon Press · 92 pages · ENGISBN 9781556593017

Structured as a naturalist's notebook, yet suggesting an ars poetica, this five-part sequence of prose poems creates a layered pilgrimage into the consequences of intensive study, the trials of being an outsider, and the process of metamorphosis -- from cover.

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