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Akron Series in Poetry

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Still, it remains recognizably this world. The parent lies to the child about death, and the child lies to the parent about death. In the journey between those lies, as in the journey taken by the horse of the title, language becomes the place of refuge. It is there that "one world is always beginning." From "willingness . . . speaking its motherese," to the devil's "gossamer gibber," the voices in these poems discover that to be human is, as Heidegger said, "to be a conversation."

Beckian Fritz Goldberg is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She received a B.A. and M.A. in English at Arizona State University and took an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Vermont College. Goldberg has previously published two full-length collections, Body Betrayer and In the Badlands of Desire, with Cleveland State University Press, and her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, such as The Best American Poetry 1995 and Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poetry. She has received several prizes for her work, including a 1998 Pushcart Prize and the Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Award.