Lapis (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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- Synopsis
- In Lapis, poet Kerri Webster writes into the vast space left by the deaths of three women: her mother, a mentor, and a friend. Using a wide array of lyric forms and meditations, Webster explores matrilineages both familial and poetic, weaving together death, spirituality, women, and a sense of the shifting earth into one "doctrine of Non-linear Revelation." Elegy And I was equal to my longing:the mums blackening; sorrow a carboned figurine; the firmament steaming; your ashesinterred in the boulder;the ugly birds crying dolor dolor dolor;the sky smoke-choked—what, then, would you have had be my register?As the beasts of the field rub their antlers off with ooh-itch pleasure; as the screen says You often open around this time; as the grapesblight: listen: sometimes we're the pilgrim, sometimes we're the site.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780819500212
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780819500076
- Publisher:
- Wesleyan University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/02/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Kerri Webster
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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