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Sonia Gernes - What You Hear in the Dark: New and Selected Poems - 9780268029685 - V9780268029685
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What You Hear in the Dark: New and Selected Poems

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Description for What You Hear in the Dark: New and Selected Poems Paperback. Gathers Sonia Gernes' three books of poetry and builds on their themes with three sections of poems that give lyric voice to the thoughts and questions that surface in the midnight hours: the value of the lives we've chosen, time and mortality, and the struggles with belief. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.

What You Hear in the Dark gathers the best of Sonia Gernes' three previous books of poetry and builds on their themes with three sections of new poems that give lyric voice to the thoughts and questions that surface in the midnight hours: the value of the lives we've chosen, time and mortality, the struggles with belief. Like Teilhard de Chardin, Gernes is convinced that we find the universal by going deeply and authentically into the personal, and these poems detail the small human dramas that reveal us to ourselves.

Both the new and the selected poems distill Gernes' impulse ... Read more

The new poems confront the metaphysical directly and in a mature voice, searching through quotidian experience for "the ultimate equation / the voice beyond sound / the is beyond our stories of it / the X that equals God." Whether about her mother's long descent into Alzheimers or the mystical urges of a nineteenth-century ancestor, these are luminous poems, shot through with delight in the natural world and with Gernes' hope that "even among / inconstant stars, our world revolves eastward / darkness ever spinning toward the light."

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268029685
SKU
V9780268029685
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Sonia Gernes
Sonia Gernes is professor emerita of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of A Breeze Called the Fremantle Doctor: Poems/Tales (Notre Dame Press, 1997).

Reviews for What You Hear in the Dark: New and Selected Poems
“Gernes' love of language is evident in every poem in this collection, including powerful narrative poems from A Breeze Called the Freemantle Doctor (1997) and insightful meditative lyrics on aging and poignant memory-driven poems from other earlier, now out-of-print collections. This volume begins, however, with 25 new poems that display Gernes' best poetic gifts: thoughtful economy of words, measured reflections, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for What You Hear in the Dark: New and Selected Poems


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