Afterimages: Poems

by Cathryn Hankla

Book Overview

Afterimages is a journey of the eye, what the eye observes and what the eye cannot forget. Cathryn Hankla writes,

the world
I inhabit is a visual question,
marked by a balancing line
of light on distant water, a mirror
horizon.

These poems balance the death of family members against the monologue of a woman who comes to life under the coroner's knife. Memories of a life-saving class counterbalance the image...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807116858
• ISBN13: 9780807116852
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 9.0"