Revenance

by Cynthia Hogue

Book Overview

By turns elegiac, ecopoetic, and impolitic, Cynthia Hogue's eighth collection, Revenance, is a condensery of empathic encounters with others and otherness. Hogue coins a word--from revenant, French for 'ghost'--to consider questions of life and afterlife, and to characterize the ways in which the people and places we love return to us, and return us to ourselves, holding us to account. The poems of Revenance contain telling touchstone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597095419
• ISBN13: 9781597095419
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"