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Profane Halo
Gillian Conoley
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Description for Profane Halo
Paperback. A rich, thoughtful investigation of this political/historical moment that both illuminates and transcends that moment. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 7. Weight in Grams: 199.
Conscious of politics and of music, these poems continue Conoley's explorations into the questions of grace and redemption, self and other, death in life, language and being, democracy and song. This collection takes its title from Italian philosopher and critic Giorgio Agamben's notion of a post-rapturous world whose figures roam the earth, striving to find new community, new meaning. Gillian Conoley's collections include Lovers in the Used World, Beckon, Tall Stranger (nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Some Gangster Pain and the chapbooks Woman Speaking Inside Film Noir and Fatherless Afternoon. Winner of several Pushcart Prizes, the ... Read more
Conscious of politics and of music, these poems continue Conoley's explorations into the questions of grace and redemption, self and other, death in life, language and being, democracy and song. This collection takes its title from Italian philosopher and critic Giorgio Agamben's notion of a post-rapturous world whose figures roam the earth, striving to find new community, new meaning. Gillian Conoley's collections include Lovers in the Used World, Beckon, Tall Stranger (nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Some Gangster Pain and the chapbooks Woman Speaking Inside Film Noir and Fatherless Afternoon. Winner of several Pushcart Prizes, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Wave Books United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780974635323
SKU
V9780974635323
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Ref
99-15
About Gillian Conoley
Gillian Conoley's collections include Lovers in the Used World, Beckon, Tall Stranger (nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Some Gangster Pain. Winner of several Pushcart Prizes, the Jerome J. Shestack Award in Poetry, and included in Best American Poetry, she is Poet-in-Residence and Professor at Sonoma State University, where she is the founder and editor of Volt. ... Read more
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