Vanitas: Poems

by Robert A. Fink and Jane McKinley

vanitas: A still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre incorporating symbols of mortality or mutability. --The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Jane McKinley weaves together memories, myths, and interior worlds to create a vanitas of her own. With an oboist's mastery of rhythm and form and a painterly eye for detail, the poet retraces scenes from her childhood, allowing us to witness its shattering conclusion: the death of a beloved sister...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726843
• ISBN13: 9780896726840
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.2"