Shadow of Heaven
Poems
12 August 2003
Description
Shortlisted for the 2002 National Book Award in Poetry.
Following her stringent and much-acclaimed Kyrie, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ellen Bryant Voigt now examines more intimately the ordeals and exaltations of everyday life. Nature, both fierce and benign, infuses this collection, furthering "an art at once ravishing and stern and deeply human" (American Academy of Arts and Letters).
Reviews
"She writes with a classic authority...maturely, philosophically, and with passion and intelligence." — Booklist
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Driven by an urgent need to speak, these poems hurl themselves forward.
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A meticulously crafted new volume from the acclaimed American poet whom the Washington Post Book World called a “genius.”
Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
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“Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world.”—Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World