On a Stair

by Ann Lauterbach

Book Overview

Ann Lauterbach's fifth collection takes its title from Emerson's great essay, Experience: "Where do we find ourselves?" he asks. Lauterbach's stair sits precariously between a quest for spiritual vitality and a sense of the overwhelming materiality of our world. Identifying with the clown, the nomad and the thief figures whose ghostly marginality haunt this book, Lauterbach brings us, with a dazzling range of formal and imagistic resources, to a new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140587934
• ISBN13: 9780140587937
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher