Bright Existence

by Brenda Hillman

Book Overview

A celebrated poet's vision of our dynamic universe.

The poems in Brenda Hillman's new collection, a companion volume to her recent Death Tratates, offer a dynamic vision of a universe founded on the tensions between light and dark, existence and non-existence, male and female, spirit and matter. Informed in part by Gnostic concepts of the separate soul in search of its divine origins ("spirit held by matter"). This dualistic vision...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819512079
• ISBN13: 9780819512079
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up