A Gilded Lapse of Time: Poems by Schnackenberg, Gjertrud
A Gilded Lapse of Time: Poems by Schnackenberg, Gjertrud

A Gilded Lapse of Time: Poems

Nadine Gordimer once remarked that Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poems move me in a way that I don't really...
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Author: Gjertrud Schnackenberg
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Language: English
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A Gilded Lapse of Time: Poems by Schnackenberg, Gjertrud

A Gilded Lapse of Time: Poems

$44.00
A Gilded Lapse of Time: Poems by Schnackenberg, Gjertrud

A Gilded Lapse of Time: Poems

$44.00
Author: Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Nadine Gordimer once remarked that Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poems move me in a way that I don't really think I have experienced since I first read Rilke at sixteen or seventeen.

A Gilded Lapse of Time, Schnackenberg's third volume, is presented in three sections: the title sequence, concerning a visit to Dante's tomb in Ravenna; Crux of Radiance, a series of poems exploring the making and unmaking of the image of God in scenes from the Passion narrative; and A Monument in Utopia, about the destruction of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam at the hands of Stalin.

Setting legends of the Creation against history's record of catastrophe, setting acts of miraculous art-making against themes of God's world-making, the poems in A Gilded Lapse of Time search out the relationship between poetry and history, the ways they haunt one another, and the guilt that poetry and history share in one another's unfolding. The poet's treatment of the themes of human and divine handiwork--of earthly and celestial love, faith and refusal, oblivion and remembrance--attains to an incandescent vision of the past as a realm that lies before rather than behind us.

Author: Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 04/01/1994
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.44w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780374523992

About the Author

Gjertrud Schnackenberg was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1953. The Throne of Labdacus (FSG, 2000) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry.




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