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Vanitas
Fink, Robert A.; McKinley, Jane
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Description for Vanitas
"This twentieth winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry searches for language and meaning after unspeakable loss. Through memories, myths, and interior worlds, the author creates her own vanitas: a still-life painting symbolic of mortality and mutability"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
vanitas: A still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre incorporating symbols of mortality or mutability. —The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Jane McKinley weaves together memories, myths, and interior worlds to create a vanitas of her own. With an oboist's mastery of rhythm and form and a painterly eye for detail, the poet retraces scenes from her childhood, allowing us to witness its shattering conclusion: the death of a beloved sister and its silent aftershocks.
vanitas: A still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre incorporating symbols of mortality or mutability. —The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Jane McKinley weaves together memories, myths, and interior worlds to create a vanitas of her own. With an oboist's mastery of rhythm and form and a painterly eye for detail, the poet retraces scenes from her childhood, allowing us to witness its shattering conclusion: the death of a beloved sister and its silent aftershocks.
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
Number of Pages
124
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896726840
SKU
V9780896726840
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