Incarnate Grace - Couverture souple

Linehan, Moira

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0809333899 ISBN 13 : 9780809333899

Editeur : Southern Illinois University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In her collection Incarnate Grace, poet Moira Linehan explores, questions, and ultimately celebrates her attempt to live in the temple of the present.

After learning she has breast cancer, the poet struggles to live an examined life. Alienated and estranged from her own body, she turns her cancer into "these binoculars, / this new way of looking," and uses it as a way of fixing herself firmly within the moment. As she travels Ireland and the Pacific Northwest, her busy mind moves from the knot in her breast to the knots in her knitting to the illuminated knots of The Book of Kells to the tossing, knotted surface of the sea; from the margins of her surgery--clean but not ideal--to the margins of illuminated manuscripts. She links the mundane to the mythic, intertwining connections between scripture and nature, storms and loss, winter and light, breast cancer and embroidery. As she returns to her home on a small pond in Massachusetts, she takes with her the fruits of her travels: the incarnate grace of the ordinary.

Vivid and compelling, Incarnate Grace finds beauty in the worst of circumstances and redemption in the fabric of daily life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

After careers as a high school English teacher and an administrator in high-tech and academic settings, Moira Linehan now writes full time and occasionally leads poetry writing workshops. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Alaska Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Image, Notre Dame Review, Poetry, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, and TriQuarterly. Linehan's debut collection, If No Moon, won the 2006 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry open competition; it was published in 2007 by Southern Illinois University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Southern Illinois University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0809333899
• ISBN 13: 9780809333899
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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• Personne responsable: non disponible