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Offers a way to think about how the power of poetry, art, and the lyrical imagination illuminate history, trauma, and memory.

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"Vise and Shadow belongs on a shelf alongside the literary essays of J. M. Coetzee, Adrienne Rich, and Seamus Heaney-all of whom are absorbed by the very same questions haunting and inspiring Balakian." (Askold Melnyczuk, author of The House of Widows)

Vise and Shadow

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    A Paperback / softback by Peter Balakian

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 6 May 2015
      ISBN-13 9780226254333
      978-0226254333
      ISBN-10 022625433X
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      Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a way to think about how the power of poetry, art, and the lyrical imagination illuminate history, trauma, and memory.

      Trade Review
      "Vise and Shadow belongs on a shelf alongside the literary essays of J. M. Coetzee, Adrienne Rich, and Seamus Heaney-all of whom are absorbed by the very same questions haunting and inspiring Balakian." (Askold Melnyczuk, author of The House of Widows)

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