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Fortress
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Lyrical approaches to the relationships between solitude, beauty and the world.
Winner of the Commonwealth Club Book Award, Silver Medal for Poetry (1990)
In the title poem "Fortress", the medieval walled castle is the stronghold in which the family dwells. There are stories here of people in the "fortresses" of the self, the city, or the natural world.
All these poems have in common a lyrical approach to solitude ("the only protection / against death/ was to love solitude") and an ironical v...
Winner of the Commonwealth Club Book Award, Silver Medal for Poetry (1990)
In the title poem "Fortress", the medieval walled castle is the stronghold in which the family dwells. There are stories here of people in the "fortresses" of the self, the city, or the natural world.
All these poems have in common a lyrical approach to solitude ("the only protection / against death/ was to love solitude") and an ironical v...
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