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    A Skeletal Wand
    A Skeletal Wand
    A Skeletal Wand
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    A Skeletal Wand

    By Pierson Ruth Roach

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    In her finest collection of poetry to date, Ruth Roach Pierson marshals her considerable expository powers to explore personhood, paranormal phenomenon, and mortality. A Skeletal Wand reaches out with poems that are both honest and strange, touching on a diverse range of subjects that overlap and disrupt easy interpretation. When Pierson writes “For decades her identity / was derivative / like scent / from a perfume bottle,” it is with the belief that character is not set in stone, and that change is inherent to the human condition. Approaching the past and present from many different angles, A Skeletal Wand is a refreshing look at the constants that inform modern life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPalimpsest Press
    Release dateSep 16, 2018
    ISBN9781926794914
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