"Because Lex Runciman gives himself to it with such unreserved and, more distinctively, unembarrassed attention, the domestic world--the world of the household, backyard, the neighborhood street--is flooded with a pathos, a quality of light, a delicious and familar beauty that one sees in the paintings of Vermeer. In the range of its ideas and responses, in the gravity of its concerns, this book is refreshingly, disarmingly large."
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"Because Lex Runciman gives himself to it with such unreserved and, more distinctively, unembarrassed attention, the domestic world--the world of the household, backyard, the neighborhood street--is flooded with a pathos, a quality of light, a delicious and familar beauty that one sees in the paintings of Vermeer. In the range of its ideas and responses, in the gravity of its concerns, this book is refreshingly, disarmingly large."
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Add this copy of The Admirations: Poems to cart. $5.00, very good condition, Sold by Murphy-Brookfield Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Iowa City, IA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Lynx House Books.