Ruins

by Margaret Randall and Vincent Barrett Price

In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time's movement--through memory, through cities, through the leavings of history, and through the bodies of people who have experienced time's transformations and traumas. Randall's ruins include not only Chaco Canyon, Hovenweep, Teotihuacan, Machu Picchu, Kiet Siel, Petra, and sites in ancient Greece and Egypt, but also Auschwitz-Birkenau and lives shattered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826350674
• ISBN13: 9780826350671
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.9"