Honey With Tobacco By Peg Boyers 9780226069678 (Paperback)

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Honey With Tobacco : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226069678 : 0226069672 : 13 Apr 2007 : Pietà   This time the migraine came with a vision bathed in night sweat: I was sitting on the Eames chair, your man&;s body on my lap, legs and arms white as casein draped over mine, spilling onto the cassock, new sores on your legs, dried blood on your feet and hands, from your chalk mouth the words forgive me, from mine, the impossible no   Hard Bread,Peg Boyers&;s debut poetry collection, with verse spoken in the imagined voice of the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg, was widely praised for its inspired ventriloquism and its brilliant lyricism. In Honey with Tobacco, Boyers&;s own intensely personal voice emerges in three strikingly distinctive variants. The first part of the book is the most explicitly autobiographical, bringing together poems that explore the poet&;s Cuban American experience and a childhood marked by travel, the tropics, and varieties of disenchantment. The mid

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