The Infinitesimals
By: Laura Kasischke
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781556594663
Subjects: American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: ""Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."-Austin American-StatesmanThe Infinitesimals stares directly at illness and death, employing the same highly evocative and symbolic style that earned Laura Kasischke the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Drawing upon her own experiences with cancer, and the lives and deaths of loved ones, Kasischke's new work commands a lyrical and dark intensity.Laura Kasischke is the author of eight collections of poetry and seven novels. She teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Outside Are the Dogs and the Sorcerers; title: At the End of the Text, a Small Bestial Form; title: That Men Should Kill One Another; title: A Dog, About to Pounce, Looks Back; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the Author