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    Child in the Road
    Child in the Road
    Child in the Road
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    Child in the Road

    By Cindy Savett

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    Child in the Road is a mother’s response to the sudden death of her young daughter, a rendering of the wide range of emotions experienced afterwards--not description, but an expression of grief from its center. The poems pull vivid imagery from the deepest layers of the unconscious, postcards from a sleepwalker unable to find rest, waking again and again in the wrong story. Who is alive and who is dead? What does it mean to go on living, “eyes searching / under the earth”?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParlor Press, LLC
    Release dateOct 2, 2007
    ISBN9781602356160
    Child in the Road
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    Cindy Savett

    CINDY SAVETT teaches poetry workshops at mental institutions in the Philadelphia area and has published her poetry in a wide variety of journals. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Merion, Pennsylvania, with her husband and children.

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      Child in the Road - Cindy Savett

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      Child in the Road

      Cindy Savett

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

      www.parlorpress.com

      Parlor Press LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906

      © 2007 by Cindy Savett

      All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

      S A N: 2 5 4 - 8 8 7 9

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Savett, Cindy, 1953-

      Child in the road / Cindy Savett.

      p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)

      ISBN 978-1-60235-029-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-031-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-030-4 (adobe ebook)

      I. Title.

      PS3619.A85C47 2007

      811’.6--dc22

      2007037865

      Printed on acid-free paper.

      Cover photograph: Walking Away Girl © 2007 by Olga Sapegina. Used by permission.

      Parlor Press, LLC is

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