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Prospect

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Claire Sylvester Smith is a physician and writer. She received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and an MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Her research on communication during awake surgery has been published in The American Journal of Surgery and featured in the New York Times . Klappentext Prospect comprises poems about vantage points, country and personhood, and the difficulty of understanding what is true. Through meticulously articulated explorations of knowledge, truth, language, and science's explanatory power, Prospect propels us toward grasping even the metaphysical. Presented in four parts--Prospect, Country, Proof, and Studies on Anatomy and Mourning--Prospect offers a vision of life scaled as small as a cell and as large as a country, as bordered and un-bordered as a human body, and heightened by the tensions of all that cannot be known. Zusammenfassung The Twenty-Sixth Winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry. Prospect/ comprises poems about vantage points! country and personhood! and the difficulty of understanding what is true.

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Authors Rachel Mennies, Claire Sylvester Smith
Publisher Texas Tech University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.07.2018
 
EAN 9781682830369
ISBN 978-1-68283-036-9
Series Walt McDonald First-Book Serie
Walt McDonald First-Book Serie
Walt Mcdonald First-book Series in Poetry
Walt McDonald First-Book Poetr
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama

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