The Golden Road

ISBN-13: 9780810128590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 92 str.

Rachel Hadas

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A central theme of "The Golden Road" is the prolonged dementia of the poet s husband. But Rachel Hadas s new collection sets the loneliness of progressive loss in the context of the continuities that sustain her: reading, writing, and memory; familiar places; and the rich texture of a life fully lived. These poems are meticulously observed, nimble in their deployment of a range of forms, and capacious in their range of reference. They take us to a Greek island, to Carl Schurz Park in New York City, to an old house in Vermont, to a performance of "Macbeth, " and to the neurology floor of a hospital. Hadas finds beauty in all those places." The Golden Road" laments, but it also celebrates."