The Owl and the Moon, by Peter Strauss (used)

The owl is death and parting on occasion, but also good darkness and deep sounds; the moon, round and honey-coloured, is a woman. All kinds of well-loved female characters appear in these poems: friends and relations, an adopted abandoned child more wandering spirit than possible reality, a labrador puppy. What love and death make up between them (in this book, anyway) is memory - nostalgia - and its problematic ambivalence. If a book has to be about something, then that is what this one is about.

condition: good (cover worn)