Take a Rib: The Arc of a Life in Poems

In this timeline and collection, Diane Lilli returns to the poems of her youth, with transformative imagery that tracks her lifetime of writing poems, landing in 2025.

Beginning with her first poem written at eight-years of age, the author continues to share a real-time body of work from different moments of her life, as a fantastical, poetic memoir.

Every poem is organized in chronological order, and separated by distinct phases of her life.

Take a Rib is a wild ride through the stages of life as seen through the lines of a poet, from the freedom of surreal literary beginnings to the bittersweet world as it changes for everyone.

"Saying goodbye again," she writes, "I remind you, the most beautiful gardens grow inside fences."

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Take a Rib: The Arc of a Life in Poems

In this timeline and collection, Diane Lilli returns to the poems of her youth, with transformative imagery that tracks her lifetime of writing poems, landing in 2025.

Beginning with her first poem written at eight-years of age, the author continues to share a real-time body of work from different moments of her life, as a fantastical, poetic memoir.

Every poem is organized in chronological order, and separated by distinct phases of her life.

Take a Rib is a wild ride through the stages of life as seen through the lines of a poet, from the freedom of surreal literary beginnings to the bittersweet world as it changes for everyone.

"Saying goodbye again," she writes, "I remind you, the most beautiful gardens grow inside fences."

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Take a Rib: The Arc of a Life in Poems

Take a Rib: The Arc of a Life in Poems

by Diane Lilli
Take a Rib: The Arc of a Life in Poems

Take a Rib: The Arc of a Life in Poems

by Diane Lilli

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In this timeline and collection, Diane Lilli returns to the poems of her youth, with transformative imagery that tracks her lifetime of writing poems, landing in 2025.

Beginning with her first poem written at eight-years of age, the author continues to share a real-time body of work from different moments of her life, as a fantastical, poetic memoir.

Every poem is organized in chronological order, and separated by distinct phases of her life.

Take a Rib is a wild ride through the stages of life as seen through the lines of a poet, from the freedom of surreal literary beginnings to the bittersweet world as it changes for everyone.

"Saying goodbye again," she writes, "I remind you, the most beautiful gardens grow inside fences."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798349533402
Publisher: RebelBooksPress.com
Publication date: 09/05/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 30
File size: 837 KB
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