by Michael Van Walleghen
University of Illinois Press, 2004
Paper: 978-0-252-07178-2 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09272-5 | Cloth: 978-0-252-02921-9
Library of Congress Classification PS3572.A545I5 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. Appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, In the Black Window more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection between inner and outer worlds of experience--those liminal moments in other worlds where we become aware of ourselves. We live at once in a strictly personal, material dimension but also in a distinctly spiritual one. Yet, when looking from a lighted kitchen into a night-black window on a winter evening, we might perhaps become suddenly aware not only of our own reflection, but also of our complicity in some deeper mystery altogether.
 

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