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Product Description Death, Child and Love: Poems, 1980-2000 is the odyssey of a poet journeying from darkness to light. Chronicling a long and harrowing series of deaths and personal disappointments, the early poems in this volume serve as an antidote to dispair, expounding the difficulties of life and giving articulation to the many people who suffer. Yet, it is Francisco's focus on children in the later poems that provides healing, redemption, and arrival at a juncture where love is finally possible. Displaying a wide range of styles, the poems are, by turn, lyrical, narrative, and meditative. Review "...Death, Child, and Love is a powerful source of balance and hope for the twenty-first century and beyond." -- Marilou Awiakta, author Selu: Seeking the Corn Mother's Wisdom"...Francisco's poems--deeply moving, rooted in love of family, memory-haunting in their evocations--are written by a master of language..." -- George Scarbrough, Pulitzer nominee for Invitation to Kim "Edward Francisco is very much a kindred spirit of William Carlos Williams (wonderfully and admirably and affectingly so)..." -- Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize winner for Children of Crisis