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Kyrie
Ellen Bryant Voigt
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Description for Kyrie
Paperback. "Voigt's language dares to stir the dead, to remind us that we are temporary survivors."-Geoffrey Wolff Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 120.
In this mosaic of sonnets, her fifth collection, Ellen Bryant Voigt takes on a monumental challenge: to conjure up the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, a little-recorded event that killed 25 million worldwide, half a million in America alone. The Nation calls Kyrie "an astonishing collection . . . so spare and tightly woven, yet so mindful of the cadences of the speaking voice, that the poems read like verse drama."
Starting with the family, Voigt creates voices that gather into one vast community story, a "true tour de force" (Boston Sunday Globe) that speaks to our own ... Read more
In this mosaic of sonnets, her fifth collection, Ellen Bryant Voigt takes on a monumental challenge: to conjure up the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, a little-recorded event that killed 25 million worldwide, half a million in America alone. The Nation calls Kyrie "an astonishing collection . . . so spare and tightly woven, yet so mindful of the cadences of the speaking voice, that the poems read like verse drama."
Starting with the family, Voigt creates voices that gather into one vast community story, a "true tour de force" (Boston Sunday Globe) that speaks to our own ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780393315615
SKU
V9780393315615
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Ref
99-15
About Ellen Bryant Voigt
Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Messenger, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her numerous honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. She lives in Vermont and Minnesota.
Reviews for Kyrie
"[M]ajestic... Voigt inhabits, rather than simply 'tells,' the story of this great, but largely neglected epilogue to the Great War."
Commonweal
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