Penumbra : Poems Paperback / softback
by Michael Shewmaker
Part of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize series
Paperback / softback
Description
Penumbra—Michael Shewmaker’s debut collection—explores the half-shadows of a world torn between faith and doubt.
From intricate descriptions of the rooms in a dollhouse, to the stark depiction of a chapel made of bones, from pre-elegies for a ghostly father, to his compelling treatment of his obsessed, human characters (a pastor, a tattoo artist, a sleepwalker, to name only a few), these are poems that wrestle with what it means to believe in something beyond one’s own mortality.
Learned and formally adept, these poems consist of equal parts praise and despair.
They announce Shewmaker as an important new voice in American poetry.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:72 pages
- Publisher:Ohio University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2017
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- ISBN:9780821422731
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:72 pages
- Publisher:Ohio University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780821422731
