Two Minds: Poems

by Callie Siskel

Book Overview

Does loss define us, or do we define loss? Tracing the duality of grief as it reverberates through a family, Callie Siskel wrestles with questions of identity and inheritance in precise, lucid poetry. Two Minds indulges and therefore exposes the vanity of turning private pain into art and the pursuit of self-revelation. Drawing on ekphrasis, ars poetica, and the prose poem, Siskel expands the elegiac genre as she oscillates between childhood and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324073675
• ISBN13: 9781324073673
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.4"