![]() ![]() “A Man’s World” imagines an encounter with a man who dangles the world on a chain “The World Is Your Beautiful Younger Sister” uses a rich man’s callous destruction of a young woman as a metaphor for capitalist use of the Earth. “Deadly” envisions the Christian moment of creation with humanity’s future destructiveness in mind. The following poems take on a more global perspective. In “Hill Country,” God looks over a canyon and tries to imagine “something larger than himself” at work (9). In the opening poems, everyday scenes become divine: in “Garden of Eden,” it is remembered fruit in “The Angels,” it is caring bikers or striking weather. ![]() ![]() The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Smith, Tracy K. ![]()
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