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Vocabulary of Silence

Vocabulary of Silence

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1597094986
ISBN13: 9781597094986
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: Feb 1 2011
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Awards: New Mexico Book Awards
Poet Veronica Golos has created a conundrum--a vocabulary of silence that acts as a kind of Zen koan for the reader: a negative space, an echo chamber, a mirror. Witnessing from afar the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted by the country in which she lives, the poet also witnesses herself, and struggles to find words to carry the weight of her felt responsibility. Ms. Golos then empties her beautifully wrought poems into the vast silence, filling it with the names of the dead and the living.

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