Losing and Finding

Informationen zum Autor Karen Fiser earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia! an M.F.A. from Mills College! and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. After a first career as a philosophy professor! she began writing poems during the onset of a struggle with illness and disability. Her poems have appeared in seven anthologies and many journals. She lives in Charlottesville! Virginia. Klappentext Winner of the 2003 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. This collection of lyrical poems traces the narrative of the loss of love and intellectual powers and a groping towards a new life after a catastrophic illness. Zusammenfassung This collection of lyrical poems traces the narrative of the loss of love and intellectual powers and a groping towards a new life after a catastrophic illness. The poems describe suffering and the sudden loss of one's prior life and powers! but they also celebrate the gifts that arise from the heart of suffering.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Fiser, Karen/ McMahon Fiser
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2004
• EAN: 9781574411720
• ISBN: 978-1-57441-172-0
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry; Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama