Inheritance

by Margaret Kaufman

Inheritance, Margaret Kaufman's second full-length collection of poems, takes in the broad scope of a life and its inflections across generations. A child's first diffident steps match a parent's last ones; childhood companions come to stand beside the poet in cemeteries and waiting rooms; a son's miraculous delivery from death echoes the spiriting of a Greek warrior from the battlefield. Lyrical, yet plainspoken and unpretentious, Kaufman's poems often leap across memories and metaphors mid-sentence in ways that defy logic, but the deep resonances of rhythm, image, and internal rhyme always find their way home in the reader's imagination.

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2010

Reviews

[Mills College Library]

811.54 K213i 2010