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The White Fire of Time

The White Fire of Time

Hinsey, Ellen

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0819565571
ISBN13: 9780819565570
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Aug 8 2002
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.66 Depth: 8.86
Language: English

A stunning new work by a profound poetic talent.

In this exquisitely coherent new collection of poems, Ellen Hinsey explores the boundary between poetry and metaphysics, and the intimate bonds between morality and mortality. Drawing on philosophical and spiritual readings, The White Fire of Time displays a breadth of cultural knowledge and a deep understanding of the wisdom of the body. The poems in this book-length sequence are gorgeous, brooding, musical, elegant and serious. The work is composed in three sections: The World, meditations on the ordinary, the daily life of the body and its place in nature and time; The Temple, investigations into language and the ethical life; and The Celestial Ladder, in which poems trace the soul's spiraling journey through desire, love, grief and endurance. Each section mirrors the structure of the whole, with poems following specific forms, serving to create a symphonic rhythm in which details, metaphors and meanings build and interweave.

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