The Gift to Be Simple: A Garland for Ann Lee

by Robert Peters

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Through lyric and narrative sequences of great variety, Robert Peters becomes Ann Lee, the Mother Founder of the Shakers. He imaginatively relives her extraordinary life, from her childhood to her arrival with the first Shakers in American two hundred years ago. Visionary, full of craft and song, The Gift to Be Simple is a poem made of poems that stand on their own. Taken as a whole, they make a reading experience of unforgettable vividness.

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry
DDC/MDS
811.5Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry20th Century
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PS3531 .E827 .G5Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1900-1960
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