num_pages: 87
description: "Impressive. A box full of surprises and intense delights."―Billy Collins The insomniac speakers in Halflife are coming of age in a mythical world full of threat and promise. Seeking their true selves amid the fallen cathedrals of America, they speak wryly of destructive love affairs, aesthetic obsession, and encroaching war, but refuse to abandon hope in the power of imagination.
language: English
title: Halflife: Poems
titlecomplete: Halflife: Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 188
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Paterson Poetry Prize
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company