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Cover of "A Tender Force" by Melissa Joseph featuring an image of a tree at dusk
Published: 
August 2018
Publisher: 
Konstellation Press
ISBN: 
978-0998748290

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  • Department of English
  • The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • School of International Letters and Cultures
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A Tender Force

Poems
Author: 
Melissa Joseph

"A Tender Force" is a volume of 100 powerful and moving poems by Melissa Joseph covering topics of tenderness, suffering, connection, sensuality, doubt, disconnection, sensibility, insight, becoming, darkness, infatuation and ordinary things.

Bio

Melissa Joseph earned Masters of Arts in French (1977) and English (1979) at ASU.

Praise for this book

"Each poem in this collection is an exquisite and well-crafted facet of life. There is much wisdom to be found here."

Sharon Salzburg, author of "Lovingkindness" and "Real Happiness"