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050 00 $aPS3562.E837$bA45 1995
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100 1 $aLesser, Rika.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78093090
245 10 $aAll we need of hell :$bpoems /$cby Rika Lesser.
260 $aDenton, TX :$bUniversity of North Texas Press,$c1995.
263 $a9503
300 $axii, 87 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tThe Room --$tA Question of Belief --$tFor the Record --$tBlack Stones I --$tBlack Stones II --$tBlack Stones III --$tThe Second Time --$tOn Lithium: After One Year --$tOn Lithium: After Two --$tNepenthe --$tOther Lives --$tBlack Stones IV: (First Sight) --$tBlack Stones V: (From One to Another) --$tBlack Stones VI: (Falling) --$tEscape Attempt --$tShocking Treatment --$tA Valediction: Forbidding Moving --$tMatthew's Passion --$tBlack Stones VII: (Others, Can wrestle - ) --$tBlack Stones VIII: (And were You lost, I would be - ) --$tBlack Stones IX: (And I, and Silence) --$tBlack Stones X: (As yet but knock, breathe, shine ...) --$tOn Lithium: The Third Year --$tWhite Stone --$tBlack Stones XI: (Flight) --$tLove --$tBlack Stones XII: (Care) --$tFor Jean --$tLife: It Must Suffice Us --$tBlack Stones XIII: (As light) --$tBlack Stones XIV: (Past tense) --$tOn Lithium: Extended Terms --$tDepartures --$tThe Other Life --$tFor a Friend --$tFor Elisabeth --$tSeptember '92: Measures --$tEpilogue: Dodsdansen.
520 $aRika Lesser through-composes her books of poems; they are not albums but unities. They are meant to be read in one sitting and can be fearfully intense. In Etruscan Things she followed the circular map of the Etruscan heavens. In All We Need of Hell she seeks to escape the locked boxes of psychiatric wards and medical categorizations. When she succeeds - and she must - it is through art to life.
520 8 $aThese poems will inevitably be compared to those by other poets who have struggled with depressive illnesses. Rarely, however, does a poet address such topics as illness, mental illness, suicide, and death as singlemindedly as Lesser does here.
650 0 $aManic-depressive illness$vPoetry.
650 0 $aWomen$xPsychology$vPoetry.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3562.E837$iA45 1995