Threshold Songs

by Peter Gizzi

Book Overview

A series of private and ecstatic meditations on living and dying

About Threshold Songs, the voices in these poems perform at the interior thresholds encountered each day, where we negotiate the unfathomable proximities of knowing and not knowing, the gulf of seeing and feeling, the uncanny relation of grief to joy, and the borderless nature of selfhood and tradition. Both conceptual and haunted, these poems explore the asymmetry of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819571741
• ISBN13: 9780819571748
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.7"