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A collection that carries the poet's themes of family and friends, responsibility to the natural world of evolved diversity, the transience of life, the fragility of happiness, and the consolations offered by art and music.

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"Pack's poems may be characterized as exhibiting eloquent pathos, and they show a mature, deeply seasoned courage to surmount suffering in their exaltation of the common life. Laughter Before Sleep returns Pack to Frost's hard wisdom of stoic endurance and to the music of that endurance: a somber joy." (Harold Bloom)"

Laughter Before Sleep

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    A Paperback / softback by Robert Pack

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 October 2011
      ISBN-13 9780226644196
      978-0226644196
      ISBN-10 0226644197

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection that carries the poet's themes of family and friends, responsibility to the natural world of evolved diversity, the transience of life, the fragility of happiness, and the consolations offered by art and music.

      Trade Review
      "Pack's poems may be characterized as exhibiting eloquent pathos, and they show a mature, deeply seasoned courage to surmount suffering in their exaltation of the common life. Laughter Before Sleep returns Pack to Frost's hard wisdom of stoic endurance and to the music of that endurance: a somber joy." (Harold Bloom)"

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