Letters to a Stranger
Author(s): Thomas James; Lucie Brock-Broido (Introduction by)
The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas James
I will last forever. I am not impatient--
My skin will wait to greet its old complexions.
I'll lie here till the world swims back again.
--from "Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh"
Thomas James's Letters to a Stranger--originally published in 1973, shortly before James's suicide--has become one of the underground classics of contemporary poetry. In this new edition, with an introduction by Lucie Brock-Broido and four of James's poems never before published in book form, this fraught and moving masterpiece is at last available.
Letters to a Stranger is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Mark Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.
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General Fields
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- : Graywolf Press
- : Graywolf Press
- : 0.25
- : 24 June 2008
- : .38 Inches X 6.9 Inches X 9.1 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Thomas James; Lucie Brock-Broido (Introduction by)
- : Thomas James; Lucie Brock-Broido (Introduction by)
- : 88
- : 88
- : 811/.5/4
- : 811/.5/4
- : English
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Paperback