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Paperback Hours of the Cardinal Book

ISBN: 1570033218

ISBN13: 9781570033216

Hours of the Cardinal

(Part of the James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series)

In Hours of the Cardinal, a mother's death triggers poems that journey through grief into the unnamable origins of consciousness--before thought, talk, even printed words. These elegies weave stories and anecdotes from literature and the visual arts, literally trying to cheat death by facing it, even facing it down. The ghosts that take flesh in this collection are poets such as Tsvetayeva, Mandelstam, and Tu Fu, painters such as Max Ernst...

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