A Gilded Lapse of Time: Poems

by Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Book Overview

Nadine Gordimer once remarked that Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poems "move me in a way that I don't really think I have experienced since I first read Rilke at sixteen or seventeen."

A Gilded Lapse of Time, Schnackenberg's third volume, is presented in three sections: the title sequence, concerning a visit to Dante's tomb in Ravenna; "Crux of Radiance," a series of poems exploring the making and unmaking of the image of God in scenes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374523991
• ISBN13: 9780374523992
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"