The Ninety-Third Name of God: Poems

by Anya Krugovoy Silver

Book Overview

Anya Krugovoy Silver's debut collection considers the flawed and gaudy flesh as it turns toward a beloved's embrace, toward the surgeon's knife. Her poems both celebrate the sensual world and seek to transcend the body's limitations through encounters with art, memory, and the divine. At once imagistic, lyrical, and meditative, Silver's verse begins in the personal sphere and then looks outward toward the wider human experiences of illness, faith,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807136905
• ISBN13: 9780807136904
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"