It Was a Terrible Cloud at Twilight: Poems

by Alessandra Lynch

Book Overview

In It was a terrible cloud at twilight, Alessandra Lynch reflects on personal, social, moral, and historical terror. These ambitious, imagistic poems move through subjects of violence and loss that are both deeply personal and elegantly public. The elegiac poems in the final section are dedicated to the poet's friend, author Lucy Grealy, whose plight might also be said to embody terror. Lynch's poems are tactile and visual, coining wordsand phrases...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133469
• ISBN13: 9780807133460
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Pleiades Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"