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Update on the Descent

Update on the Descent

Hinsey, Ellen

Paperback

Poetry AnthologiesPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 0268031088
ISBN13: 9780268031084
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Sep 15 2009
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In Update on the Descent, Ellen Hinsey draws on personal experience and family tragedy to forge a masterful meditation on the extremes of the human condition. A poet who situates herself in a landscape steeped in the tragic history and artistic splendor of Europe, Hinsey suffuses her work with the urgency of historical memory. Alternating lyrics, aphorism, anti-lyrics, and philosophical notebooks, she explores the nature of terror, war, tyranny, and violence as well as reconciliation and renewal of the human spirit. Called by Carolyn Forche, A true poet, whose sense of line, cadence, and tonality is unsurpassed among poets of her generation, Hinsey brilliantly contributes to the tradition of poetry as a witness to history.

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