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It is solved by walking

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    Playwrights Canada Press, 2012

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    2012
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    When Margaret learns of the death of her former husband, she recalls their earliest days together as Ph.D. candidates, beginning a journey through her past. Told through the sensations of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," the subject of her uncompleted thesis, Margaret evokes beautiful, ordinary and painful sexual memories from before, after and during their marriage. Stevens, a guiding voice in her head for twenty-five years, cajoles Margaret into unearthing the reasons she never became the poet, scholar, wife or mother she thought she would be. Bold and poetic, It is Solved by Walking is an intimate portrait of a writer making her way back to poetry one step at a time.&nbsp&nbspAfter learning of the death of her former husband, Margaret begins to unearth the blissful and painful memories of their marriage, all through the lens of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."&nbsp&nbsp"A beautifully written and bountiful play."

    Original Publisher: [Place of publication not identified], Playwrights Canada Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781770910461, 1770910468