A Visit to Civilization

by Sandra McPherson

Book Overview

A meditation on brokenness and wholeness, history and forgetting.

This extraordinary poetic voyage uses explorations of the material culture of our past and present as points of departure. Sandra McPherson succeeds in drawing us into her examination of objects from the 20th and late 19th centuries through her weaving together of images both familiar and startling into deeply satisfying poems. She is especially interested in articles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819565199
• ISBN13: 9780819565198
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up