She Didn't Mean To Do It (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822957386)

Winner of the 1999 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The thirty-three narrative, linguistically-adventurous poems in She Didn't Mean To Do It range freely among styles and voices. Examining human emotions and behavior in all their contradictions, Daisy Fried turns a perceptive eye on those around her. Fried integrates metaphoric flights and idiosyncratic narrative, surprising us with the details--"I saw that the wisteria/in dusk its same color hung (heavier than/the breasts of stabbed and stabber ever would be)"--while her characters traipse across lines and pages. These are poems about human relationships, mostly romantic and sexual. They're also about jobs and work: urban, action-packed and socially aware.

Author: Daisy Fried
ISBN-10: 0822957388
ISBN-13: 9780822957386
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2000
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/22/2001 pg. 322
Women's Review of Books 11/01/2001 pg. 22