Renunciation

by Corey Marks

Book Overview

Renunciation introduces a powerful new poet whose work, though it treads the ground of silence and loss, bears a redemptive grace. Disquieting and healing, Corey Marks's poems hold to "a moment when possibility / bristles so close it holds a shape in the air."

The sculptor Gislebertus, Doubting Thomas, Theseus, and John Keats share space in the pages of Renunciation with a survivor of the bomb in Hiroshima, a blind girl in the South...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025206898X
• ISBN13: 9780252068980
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.4"