Book of Exodus
By: Smith, Kathryn
Material type: TextPublisher: Scablands Books 2017ISBN: 0990752569; 9780990752561Subject(s): American Poetry - 21st Century | Poetry | Women PoetsSummary: Poetry. In language poet Laurie Lamon calls "both spare and sumptuous," BOOK OF EXODUS narrates the imagined experiences of a Russian family who lived for 40 years in the Siberian taiga, utterly isolated from society. Kathryn Smith's debut collection examines wilderness, loneliness, and faith in poems that author Nance Van Winckel says "allow entry, or re-entry, to primal selves, we who once roamed a forest, ate of its bounty, and fought its beasts. And yes, in the best sense, the book also seems—as a marvelous abecedarian poem's title proclaims—a 'Rehearsal for the Apocalypse.'"Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Spark Central Poetry | Local | POETRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31214000025676 |
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Poetry. In language poet Laurie Lamon calls "both spare and sumptuous," BOOK OF EXODUS narrates the imagined experiences of a Russian family who lived for 40 years in the Siberian taiga, utterly isolated from society. Kathryn Smith's debut collection examines wilderness, loneliness, and faith in poems that author Nance Van Winckel says "allow entry, or re-entry, to primal selves, we who once roamed a forest, ate of its bounty, and fought its beasts. And yes, in the best sense, the book also seems—as a marvelous abecedarian poem's title proclaims—a 'Rehearsal for the Apocalypse.'"
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