num_pages: 53
description: In Figures for the Ghost, Scott Cairns offers postmodern meditations on the problems of epistemology, interpretation and belief. The collection is distinguished by its implicit proposition that uncertainty (or decenteredness) is a pleasurable state. "In their gestures and in their intent, the poems are religious," says Cairns, "but honestly so. Skirting didacticism, they perform a willing trajectory into the unknown."
language: English
title: Figures for the Ghost: Poems
titlecomplete: Figures for the Ghost: Poems (The Contemporary Poetry Ser.)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 18
publisher: University of Georgia Press