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Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey

Poems, 1991-1995

By Carruth, Hayden & Press, Copper Canyon

Publishers Summary:
Adrienne Rich has called Hayden Carruth "a part of our country's poetic treasure," and his other admirers include Galway Kinnell and Wendell Berry. A poet's poet, Carruth spins simple lines full of possible meanings, lines that stick in the reader's mind a long time. In "Particularity," for instance, Carruth writes of "this invisible / hereness where I am . . . the center / of mystery." Juxtaposing the mysterious with the tangible, Carruth is writing better than ever.

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978-1-55659-110-5
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Copper Canyon Press


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Reviewed on June 1, 1996

Although Carruth here declares "Truth and Beauty/ were never the/ aims of proper poetry,'' there's plenty of both in this affecting volume. "When we say I/ miss you/ what we mean is "I'm/ filled with/ dread'' "Was it the way of your world, too, old master, that everyone had to be/ a villain in someone else's life?"; "This is the summer of war in Bosnia...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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