Shadow of Heaven: Poems

By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Book Overview

Following her stringent and much-acclaimed Kyrie , finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ellen Bryant Voigt now examines more intimately the ordeals and exaltations of everyday life. Nature, both fierce and benign, infuses this collection, furthering "an art at once ravishing and stern and deeply human" (American Academy of Arts and Letters).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393041476
• ISBN13: 9780393041477
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Moveable Feast Of Words & Images

Ellen Bryant Voigt's "Shadow of Heaven" is a moveable feast of words and images that have great "carrying" power. I love poems that you read and then carry those words and images with you through the day - and weeks and years - after you read them. A fine example is *The Others* on Page 23. This poem alone is worth the price of admission and I promise you will never look at Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel ceiling the same way again.