{"product_id":"taken-in-faith-poems-9780804010405","title":"Taken in Faith: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1967, Yvor Winters wrote of Helen Pinkerton, \"she is a master of poetic style and of her material. No poet in English writes with more authority.\" Unfortunately, in 1967 mastery of poetic style was not, by and large, considered a virtue, and Pinkerton's finely crafted poems were neglected in favor of more improvisational and flashier talents. Though her work won the attention and praise of serious readers, who tracked her poems as they appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sewanee Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, her verse has never been available in a trade book. \u003ci\u003eTaken in Faith\u003c\/i\u003e remedies that situation, bringing Pinkerton's remarkable poems to a general audience for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven her very earliest works embody a rare depth and seriousness. Primarily lyrical and devotional, they always touch on larger issues of human struggle and conduct. More recent poems, concerned in part with history, exhibit a stylistic as well as a thematic shift, moving away from the rhymed forms of her devotional works into a blank verse marked by a quiet flexibility and contemplative grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Virginia Adair, another poet who waited long for proper recognition, Pinkerton speaks as a woman who has lived fully and observed acutely and who has set the life and observations down in memorable verse. \u003ci\u003eTaken in Faith\u003c\/i\u003e represents a half-century of her poetic efforts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Pinkerton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Swallow Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.62w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804010405","brand":"Swallow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45133444350089,"sku":"9780804010405","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_394494bd-cf34-42c3-9e68-c60e6513f597.jpg?v=1767678901","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/taken-in-faith-poems-9780804010405","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}