Lives of the Sleepers.Lives of the Sleepers Ned Balbo University of Notre Dame Press The University of Notre Dame Press is a university press that is part of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States. External link
310 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame , IN 46556 0268021856 $15.00 1-800-621-2736 www.undpress.nd.edu Award-winning poet Ned Balbo presents Lives of the Sleepers, a collection of free-verse, monologue-style poetry centering on the themes of those who sleep and dream. Dark and moving, sometimes morbid morbid /mor·bid/ (mor´bid) 1. pertaining to, affected with, or inducing disease; diseased. 2. unhealthy or unwholesome. 3. , yet also haunting haunt·ing adj. Continually recurring to the mind; unforgettable: a haunting melody. haunt in its search to understand the human mind, consciousness, emotion and expression, Lives of the Sleepers is profound and memorable. "A Tragedy": A tragedy of Shakespearean proportions / Scaled down for the suburbs and a cast / Of gifted amateurs: two "honors" kids, / Lovesick love·sick adj. 1. So deeply affected by love as to be unable to act normally. 2. Exhibiting a lover's yearning. love eighth-graders not long disappeared / For whom the worst was feared, and now is over, / Dragged up from the river, final words / Slipped under rocks impossible to miss: / My mother tried to break us up forever--/ Her mother! Now we're going to a place / Where, at last, we'll always be together ... / You poor kids. Snapshots fade, the news moves on, / And though we dread the solace that you sought / And found, still more we fear not to have loved / As deeply, nor as recklessly, as you. |
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