Astatine

by Michael Kenyon

Astatine is an Italian girl, who like Dante's Beatrice, haunts the narrator of Michael Kenyon's incandescent fourth book of poetry.

Named after a radioactive element whose isotopes endure half-lives of mere seconds, she is simultaneously a disappearing and abiding presence who cajoles and comforts, who questions and points, who often leaves the poet puzzled, electrified, heart-broken, and wanting more. Astatine is Kenyon's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 192682993X
• ISBN13: 9781926829937
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Brick Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.6"