Placebo Effects: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393318913)

"This collection of beguiling poems . . . takes as its avenue into experience the palpable, quotidian objects of the intimate environment. A barometer, an arrangement of flowers, a vase, a carpet, a pyramid of oranges in a city marketplace are seen and then entered as one might enter the action of a film. . . . There is something of the child's wondrous way of seeing the world that electrifies." Boston Globe "Jeanne Beaumont's poems are smart and full of feeling, heartbreakingly in love with the snares and clarities of the language she writes in, and lit throughout by a kind of wry wonder." William Matthews "How rare to discover so sly and disarming, so luminous and compelling a debut." David St. John"

Author: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
ISBN-10: 0393318915
ISBN-13: 9780393318913
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1999
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.51w x 0.38d