num_pages: 82
description: Lefcowitz's fifth collection of poetry is partly an elegy for her late mother, partly a celebration of the birth of her first grandchild, partly a farewell party for her broken marriage, but most of all a collection of poems that range from Mostar to Japan, fractals to Disney World. Especially noteworthy are the witty conversational sestinas, one from Marilyn Monroe to Sylvia Plath, another from Sophocles to Sigmund Freud. From the epigram, "Think of Onions": "...Words/break loose from their familiar endings,/like the newly parted/end of season fans and players/going their separate ways into that dark/where everything subdivides, returns at last/to its own smallness." In many ways, this book is a prelude to the scientific concerns in her latest collection, "A Hand of Stars."
language: English
title: The Minarets of Vienna
titlecomplete: The Minarets of Vienna
publisher: Chestnut Hills Press