by Cory Marks
University of Illinois Press, 2000
Paper: 978-0-252-06898-0 | Cloth: 978-0-252-02581-5
Library of Congress Classification PS3563.A666R46 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6

ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Renunciation introduces a powerful new poet whose work, though it treads the ground of silence and loss, bears a redemptive grace. Disquieting and healing, Corey Marks's poems hold to "a moment when possibility / bristles so close it holds a shape in the air."
 
The sculptor Gislebertus, Doubting Thomas, Theseus, and John Keats share space in the pages of Renunciation with a survivor of the bomb in Hiroshima, a blind girl in the South American jungle, and DeSoto's thirteen swine in the hold of a ship bound for America. Rich with almost palpable nuances of light and sound, Marks's lyric meditations unravel a constant play of loss and continuation, "mending sense from spare threads" and hovering over connections undone even as they are made.
 

See other books on: POEMS | Poetry | Renunciation
See other titles from University of Illinois Press