Download or read book The Clearing written by Philip White and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on transformations of love and self over time and in bereavement. White's subjects are autobiographical--love, marriage, the deaths of his father, mother, and, more centrally, his first wife. Questioning memory and self-deception, the poems employ language and metaphors drawn from ordinary life. Winner, Walt McDonald First-Book Competition 2007"--Provided by publisher.