Hours of the Cardinal

by Richard Lyons

In Hours of the Cardinal, a mother's death triggers poems that journey through grief into the unnamable origins of consciousness--before thought, talk, even printed words. These elegies weave stories and anecdotes from literature and the visual arts, literally trying to cheat death by facing it, even facing it down. The ghosts that take flesh in this collection are poets such as Tsvetayeva, Mandelstam, and Tu Fu, painters such as Max Ernst...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570033218
• ISBN13: 9781570033216
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"