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Chosen by the Lion

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Poems
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Linda Gregg
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Chosen by the Lion is Linda Gregg's fourth collection, and her most eloquent, bespeaking a deeply personal reconciliation with the loss of love. Gregg is able to take common experience, to see it clearly, in all its mundane and ordinary complexity. But in her poetry, that experience is also explored in its affinity to the gods, to the ways of nature. The result is an experience that is firmly grounded in the ordinary, yet transformed spiritually.

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$12.95
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-55597-208-0
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Paperback
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Pages
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62
Trim Size
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6 x 9
Keynote
The fourth collection by a poet who "engage[s] the sublime and the tremendous, in our polluted and corrupt time" (Gerald Stern)

About the Author

Linda  Gregg
Credit: Hal Lum
Linda Gregg was the author of seven books of poetry: Too Bright to See, Alma, The Sacraments of Desire, Chosen by the Lion, Things and FleshIn the Middle Distance, and All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, among others. Gregg received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She received the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry for achievement across her career. She died in 2019.
 
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