Title: Figures for the ghost
Subtitle: poems
First published: 1994
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."
Subjects: American Christian poetry
LC classification: PS3553.A3943 F54 1994