The Ardors

By Kathleen Peirce

Book Overview

"Startling in their mystery, these poems are entirely original; abstract and passionate, sensual and otherworldly, trance-like and exciting . . . . The Ardors is a book that takes us beyond ourselves, beyond our workaday bodies and souls."--Jean Valentine.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931337209
• ISBN13: 9781931337205
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Ausable Press
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Ardors

"The Ardors is a book that takes us beyond ourselves, beyond our workady bodies and souls."-Jean Valentine "The arguments in the more formal of these poems are nearly Miltonic-I refer now to the darkness of a world quarreling with its darkness, that cold, cold envoy." -Norman Dubie

The poems of The Ardors are stunning

Line upon line, gorgeous. Masterfully employing an extended metaphor of pearls, Peirce honors the intensity, mystery, and beauty of earth, and of experience. She observes worlds mindfully, so that her poems move between large and small, under and over, internal and external. This movement complements her brilliant and measured phrasing. The poems accumulate, like pearls, to form an exquisite book of American poetry.