Twin Cities

A sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today's finest living poets.

Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose latest collection, Sparrow, a haunting elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally rich book of poems about how things double-by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined-and the random intersection of the two. Lit by loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment and rescue-they are two, and they are one.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 05/31/2011
ISBN: 9780143119647
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.30d
Award: Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2011 pg. 19
Publishers Weekly 06/20/2011
Library Journal 07/01/2011 pg. 84