Human Costume

By A.E. Stringer

The poems in Human Costume explore the multiple figures we become. If spirit inhabits form, then our human selves wear flesh and feeling like costumes that both veil and reveal what animates us. At the heart of the book lies the calendar's juxtaposition of Halloween and All Saints Day, which celebrates the soul's extremes. From the unearthly delights of being alive in the cosmos, through the sufferings of armed conflict and the further trial-and-error of work and love, to the artful (and artfully misrepresentative) forms our human desires take, this book takes a wide angle on the great pageant. A.E. Stringer lives in Virginia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907056181
• ISBN13: 9781907056185
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.3"