num_pages: 80
description: Elizabeth Seydel Morgan’s Without a Philosophy explores the times when a clear solution does not exist, when we find ourselves in “those darknesses between,” where life appears nothing like certainty. In poems about the illness and death of a beloved man, the speaker asks the unanswered questions that are inevitably raised by the experience of grief, about the “impossibility of gauging distances” between souls. We see a life without pure knowledge of the truth as “we’re either learning more each day / Or slantedly misled.” Yet, there is affirmation here of a life of the imagination and a life of love.
language: English
title: Without a Philosophy: Poems
titlecomplete: Without a Philosophy: Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 3
series: L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award
publisher: LSU Press