Where Are the Snows: Poems

by Kathleen Rooney

Book Overview

Where Are the Snows takes its title from the famous refrain of Fran?ois Villon's 15th Century poem "Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past." Like that poem, the book functions, among other things, as an ubi sunt, Latin for "Where are they?" as in "Where are the ones who came before us?"--the beautiful, the strong, the virtuous, all of them? In keeping with that long tradition, these poems offer a way to think about life's transience--its beauty,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680032925
• ISBN13: 9781680032925
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 73 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 8.8"