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Otherwise(1st Edition)
(Phoenix Poets)
by Eleanor Wilner, Sarah Wilner
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90030-8, ISBN: 0-226-90030-4

"Eleanor Wilner loosens the attachments of traditional figures to the old historical ground and sets them free to suggest how it might have been otherwise, and might still be. This is the most important book yet from the acclaimed poet and MacArthur prize winner. ""Otherwise" is ambitious and patient, built on the spider's stratagem: the poet throws out a long tentative thread, then spins carefully outward until we see the new shape stan ..."

Sarah's Choice(1st Edition)
(Phoenix Poets)
by Eleanor Wilner
Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 1990 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90028-5, ISBN: 0-226-90028-2

"In this, her third collection of poems, Eleanor Wilner revises a number of our culture's central myths; invoking figures as diverse as Briar Rose and Miriam the Prophet, she casts upon their stories, and choices, an enlivening feminist perspective. "There is so much that is impressive in Wilner's mature poems. In an era which has been labelled 'The End of History, ' she examines history's less obvious lessons. If the past is to teach us ..."

Otherwise(1st Edition)
(Phoenix Poets)
by Eleanor Wilner, Sarah Wilner
Hardcover, 140 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90029-2, ISBN: 0-226-90029-0

"Eleanor Wilner loosens the attachments of traditional figures to the old historical ground and sets them free—to suggest how it might have been otherwise, and might still be. This is the most important book yet from the acclaimed poet and MacArthur prize winner."Otherwise is ambitious and patient, built on the spider's stratagem: the poet throws out a long tentative thread, then spins carefully outward until we see the new shape standin ..."