Update on the Descent

by Ellen Hinsey

In Update on the Descent, Ellen Hinsey draws on personal experience and family tragedy to forge a masterful meditation on the extremes of the human condition. A poet who situates herself in a landscape steeped in the tragic history and artistic splendor of Europe, Hinsey suffuses her work with the urgency of historical memory. Alternating lyrics, aphorism, anti-lyrics, and philosophical notebooks, she explores the nature of terror, war,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268031088
• ISBN13: 9780268031084
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"