Lauris Edmond Selected Poems 1975-2000 Author:Lauris Edmond, K. O. Arvidson This definitive edition of the poetic works of Lauris Edmond draws on her earlier selections and includes work from the last published volumes. Having published her book at the age of 50, she devoted the remaining 19 years of her life to producing poetry that was celebratory, sociable, and yet solitary. Her evolving poetic self, like her poetry,... more » received its form from her intelligence as well as from her imagination. As spontaneous as her work usually appears, it is at the same time a careful contemplation of her world and her life. Her poetry is always "closing with" these things, and is never content simply to look at them.« less