The Messenger
by Stephanie Pippin
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Pub Date Apr 01 2013 | Archive Date Aug 19 2013
Description
This mesmerizing and astonishingly assured collection offers a message as harrowing as it is essential. Faced with the hard master of necessity—“angel stinking of his own / excitement”—and bare before what Mallarmé called “the horror of the forest,” we are helpless, finally, to do anything to save what we love. Our sole task, these poems insist, is to look on while we can, and to love harder.
A Note From the Publisher
The Messenger is the winner of the 2012 Iowa Poetry Prize.
Advance Praise
“These quiet poems stunned me: direct and vivid, they delve deeply into the complex relationships between the natural, human, and spiritual worlds. . . . We are reminded of the limitation and dangers of our often self-defeating intellectual powers.”—Jane Mead, judge, 2012 Iowa Poetry Prize contest
“These fierce poems form a Darwinian compendium with speakers who empathically merge with everything feathered and furred. There’s an odd democracy here. The fresco swan on the Pompeii wall and the clamp of a falcon digging its talons into a glove both speak equally of mystery, fragility, and the future we stand to lose when we turn our backs on nature: ‘The weight of this / is more than you imagined.’ These poems have a Keatsian beauty to them, and a Keatsian truth. In other words, everything we need to know.”—Mary Jo Bang
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781609381646 |
| PRICE | $18.00 (USD) |
