Ode to the Heart Smaller Than a Pencil Eraser

by Luisa A. Igloria

Book Overview

"When Luisa Igloria cites Epictetus--'as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place'--she introduces the crowded and contradictory world her poems portray: a realm of transience, yes, where the vulnerable come to harm and everything disappears, but also a scene of tremendous, unpredictable bounty, the gloriously hued density this poet loves to detail. 'I was raised / to believe not only the beautiful can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874219523
• ISBN13: 9780874219524
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 19 years and up