Dog Angel: Poems

by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Book Overview

esse Lee Kercheval writes with wit, vivid language, and devastating honesty in these autobiographical poems. Tracing the timelines of her life forward and backward, she offers a moving examination of the role of family and the possible/probable/hoped for existence of God--and how our perceptions of the divine can be transformed from a kindergartner's dyslexically scrawled "doG loves U" to the ever-present but oft-ignored Dog Angel of the title. Ranging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822958406
• ISBN13: 9780822958406
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 8.9"