Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced

The family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker's two young nieces is at the center of Catherine Barnett's award-winning first collection. This series of elegies records the transit of grief, observing with an unflinching eye how a singular traumatic event can permanently alter our understanding of time, danger, the material world and family. Marked by clarity and restraint, these lyric poems narrate a suspenseful, wrenching story that explores the depths and limits of empathy.

"These heart-breaking poems of an all-too-human life stay as absolute as the determined craft which made them. There is finally neither irony nor simple despair in what they record. Rather, it is the far deeper response of witness, of recognizing what must be acknowledged and of having the courage and the care to say so." -Robert Creeley

Author: Catherine Barnett
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 05/01/2004
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.42w x 0.24d
ISBN: 9781882295456