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Facing Nature : Poems by John Updike is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Facing Nature : Poems about?
John Updike’s fifth collection of poetry faces nature on a number of levels. An opening section of sonnets touches upon death, aging, and, in a sequence of describing a week in Spain, insomnia and dread. The poems that follow consider nature in the form of seasons, of planting trees and being buried, of shadow and rain, of pain and accumulation, and of such human diversions as art and travel. The last poem here, and the longest in the book, undertakes a walking tour of each of Jupiter’s four
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- John Updike
- Publisher
- Knopf : Distributed by Random House
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394543857
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Erotica, Literary Fiction, Poetry
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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