Iovis: All is Full of Jove
by Anne Waldman
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Finalist, Colorado Book Award for Poetry, 1994. "She's the fastest, wisest woman to run with the wolves in some time."--The New York Times Book Review "This is a poem of rare ambition, scope, and mastery...A considerable statement of the independence and equality of women."--The Bloomsbury ReviewTags
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Anne Waldman is the author of myriad collections of poetry, the editor of numerous anthologies, the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award, and for The Iovis Trilogy, the recipient of the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. She recently received the American Book Award for lifetime achievement from the Before Columbus Foundation. She is a chancellor of show more the Academy of American Poets and the artistic director of the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. show less
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- Epigraph
- I was a hidden treasure and I loved to be known so I created the world. - Hadith gudsi, attributed to God by Mohammed
Give it a rest Zeus. - Hera speaking, Lucan - Dedication
- for Ambrose Eyre Bye & to the SANG HYANG SEMARA
- First words
- The poet invokes the familiar Judeo-Christian patriarch who is seductive in his humility.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)To blunt the knife.
- Blurbers
- Ginsberg, Allen; Snyder, Gary; di Prima, Diane
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