Molly Brodak's The Cipher is a deft and unsparing study of the limits of knowledge and belief, and of what solace can be found within those limits. "We stand on the rim of the void," Brodak writes. "We hold our little lamps of knowing / on the rim, and look in." Drawing vividly from mathematics, Christianity, European history, urban life, and the natural world, these poems reveal a vision of contemporary experience that is at once luminous...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807173975
ISBN13:9780807173978
Release Date:October 2020
Publisher:Pleiades Press
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.57 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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