Many of these poems have appeared elsewhere, some under different titles, as noted in the Acknowledgments. 87 p.; 21.5 cm. (8.5 inches). Light brown cloth spine, with red-stamped spine title, red paper over boards. Color illustrated dust jacket, featuring artwork by Emil Nolde, entitled Summer Flowers, painted in 1930, and with a National Book Award Finalist Gilt-stamped seal on the front section.
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"Following her stringent and much-acclaimed Kyrie, Ellen Bryant Voigt's Shadow of Heaven returns us to rich texture and formal variety. Nature, fierce or generous, infuses this collection, made indelible through the poet's own fierce, generous determination to 'bring outdoors inside, / the natural and wild, picked by my own hand . . .' In these moving, impeccably crafted poems and sequences, Voigt characteristically interrogates the forces of will and fate, the complexities of mind and heart" [from the dust jacket]. Ellen Bryant Voigt (b. 1943) is an American poet, essayist and educator, Poet Laureate of Vermont for four years, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, who has published six collections of poetry. The volume being offered here was a finalist for the National Book Award. In all, there are 20 poems in this volume.
ISBN: 0393041476
Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked.
Dust Jacket is in Near Fine Condition: light soiling on the back section.
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