She Alone.She Alone John Menaghan Salmon Publishing c/o Dufour Editions PO Box 7, Chester Springs, PA 19425 190339256X $18.95 www.dufoureditions.com 610-458-5005 Prize-winning poet John Menaghan presents She Alone, a sequene of poetry in book form that follows the life of a woman from birth to death and beyond. Changing forms from free verse free verse, term loosely used for rhymed or unrhymed verse made free of conventional and traditional limitations and restrictions in regard to metrical structure. Cadence, especially that of common speech, is often substituted for regular metrical pattern. to heroic couplets heroic couplet: see pentameter. and other poetic devices as suits the story, She Alone encapsulates its nameless protagonist's struggle to find her own sense of place and identity in a rapidly evolving world. Alternately passionate, tender, ironic, and erotic erotic /erot·ic/ (e-rot´ik) 1. charged with sexual feeling. 2. pertaining to sexual desire. e·rot·ic adj. 1. Of or concerning sexual love and desire. , She Alone is a unique experience in epic poetry Noun 1. epic poetry - poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero heroic poetry poesy, poetry, verse - literature in metrical form and enthusiastically recommended. |
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