Before the Dove Returns

Résumé du livre

These poems are full of the voices of people. Some have wandered in from the Bible and speak in personal, matter-of-fact terms of trials and triumphs endured; some are characters lovingly but unsentimentally observed in the poet's communtiy; some of the most memorable portrayed are family members caught in action and living speech; a few come from the pages of history and the history of the arts...By the book's end we know why; no matter who they are prentending to be, they are ourselves.--Rhina P. Espaillat