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Informationen zum Autor Ray McManus received his M.F.A. in poetry and his Ph.D. in composition and rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. His poems have appeared in Nimrod, Crazyhorse, Jabberwock, Natural Bridge, Los Angeles Review, Cold Mountain Review, and other journals and anthologies. McManus is the winner of the 1997 Academy of American Poets Award, the 2000 James Dickey Award in Poetry, and a 2002 Academy of South Carolina author's fellowship. He teaches writing at the University of South Carolina and is cofounder of Split P Soup, a poetry-writing initiative. Klappentext Presents a collection of poems in which the speaker searches for redemption and solace while navigating from a traumatic loss in the past to a present fraught with violence and self-destruction. It chronicles his attempt to glean some measure of forgiveness through acceptance of his own responsibly for his circumstances. Zusammenfassung Presents a collection of poems in which the speaker searches for redemption and solace while navigating from a traumatic loss in the past to a present fraught with violence and self-destruction. It chronicles his attempt to glean some measure of forgiveness through acceptance of his own responsibly for his circumstances.
