After Urgency

by Rusty Morrison

Poetry. Winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Jane Hirshfield. The aftermath of death leaves many of us dumbstruck--turned inward and inarticulate. Having lost both parents, poet Rusty Morrison attempts to find in that shocked silence a language scored by the intimacy of that aloneness with death. Each poem-series in this book of multi-part sequences evolves a new form, stretching every sentence past expectation so as to disrupt the truisms of grief...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932195416
• ISBN13: 9781932195415
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 88 Pages