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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.


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Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2001.

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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/25/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780252068980, 978-0252068980
      ISBN10: 025206898X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.


      Trade Review
      Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2001.

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