The Quick

by Katrina Roberts

Book Overview

The Quick is a book of essences. Katrina Roberts's large-spirited and exhilarating poetry is at once celebratory and elegiac, lyric and narrative, striving to divine what's at the quick of this fleeting existence we share. Anchored in many ways by the long poem "Cantata," which chronicles her pregnancy and the birth of her son, the book turns and turns its kaleidoscopic lens, settling now on origins and creation myths, now on Greek or Welsh...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029598516X
• ISBN13: 9780295985169
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher