Accounting for the Dark

A poet wrestles with faith and loss post-pandemic.

In these poems, Peter Cooley encounters both the political realities of loss through the pandemic in New Orleans and personal loss through the deaths of family members and friends. Death is a constant in this book of elegies, but the redemptive power of representation is persistent as this poet of faith memorializes imagined and lived experiences.

About the author

Peter Cooley is emeritus professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University and former Poet Laureate of Louisiana. His books include The One Certain Thing, also published by Carnegie Mellon. He is poetry editor of Christianity and Literature.

Product details

• Authors: PETER COOLEY
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.2024
• EAN: 9780887486999
• ISBN: 978-0-88748-699-9
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 215 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 122 g
• Series: Carnegie Mellon University Pre; Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies