Grace of Distance
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780807170762
Subjects: American literature
Description: "A boy places a bell in the hollow of a tree, so someone might find it. An overworked baker wishes for an annunciation of her own. A man calls down into a well until another voice calls back. In this lonely, modern world, how do we close the distances between doubt and faith, between cultures, between ourselves and those we love? In his poignant, far-traveling new collection of poems, Matthew Thorburn seeks to name--and find--that elusive, essential sense of connection"--