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This verse collection by noted biographer Daniel Mark Epstein is dedicated to fellow Baltimore author (and Duke University and Library alumna) Anne Tyler. Though some poems share Tyler’s Baltimore settings, Epstein’s subject matter is connection, loss, and the revelation that fresh perception finds in the previously known: "The Messenger" tells Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac from the viewpoint of the angel that intervened to preve ...more
This verse collection by noted biographer Daniel Mark Epstein is dedicated to fellow Baltimore author (and Duke University and Library alumna) Anne Tyler. Though some poems share Tyler’s Baltimore settings, Epstein’s subject matter is connection, loss, and the revelation that fresh perception finds in the previously known: "The Messenger" tells Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac from the viewpoint of the angel that intervened to preve ...more
