She walks in beauty : a woman's journey through poems / selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy.
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TextPublication details: New York : Voice, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 332 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 1401341454 (hardcover)
- 9781401341459 (hardcover)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 808.81 S539 | Available | 33111009637071 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Targeted at women in their mid-life, She Walks in Beauty is Caroline Kennedy's most personal collection of poems to date. In addition to each carefully selected piece, she writes an introduction to each section of the anthology which lets readers into her own life and highlights the joys and struggles that she and all women in middle age face. The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Joy Harjo, Kay Ryan, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Margaret Atwood, W.B Yeats and many more.
Falling in love -- Making love -- Breaking up -- Marriage -- Love itself -- Work -- Beauty, clothes, and things of this world -- Motherhood -- Silence and solitude -- Growing up and growing old -- Death and grief -- Friendship -- How to live.
"She Walks in Beauty" is Kennedy's selection of poetry that tells the story of a woman's life including first love and lasting love; marriage, motherhood, and work; times of silence and solitude, and times of awe.