| Shadow of Heaven Contributor(s): Voigt, Ellen Bryant (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393324648 ISBN-13: 9780393324648 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2003 Annotation: Following her much-acclaimed "Kyrie, " a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Voigt now examines more intimately the ordeals and exaltations of everyday life. Nature infuses this collection, furthering "an art at once ravishing and stern and deeply human" ("American Academy of Arts and Letters"). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2001044489 |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 6.1" W x 8.2" (0.28 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Following her stringent and much-acclaimed Kyrie, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ellen Bryant Voigt now examines more intimately the ordeals and exaltations of everyday life. Nature, both fierce and benign, infuses this collection, furthering an art at once ravishing and stern and deeply human (American Academy of Arts and Letters). |
Contributor Bio(s): Voigt, Ellen Bryant: - Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of volumes of poetry, including Shadow of Heaven, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Messenger, a finalist for the National Book Award and for the Pulitzer Prize. Voigt was awarded the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Merrill Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, where she was subsequently elected a chancellor. Her poems have appeared in an array of national journals and anthologies, including The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry. She lives in Vermont and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. |