| Author: | Ann Lauterbach | ISBN: | 9781101500279 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | October 1, 1997 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ann Lauterbach |
| ISBN: | 9781101500279 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication: | October 1, 1997 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Language: | English |
Ann Lauterbach's fifth collection takes its title from Emerson's great essay, Experience: "Where do we find ourselves?" he asks. Lauterbach's stair sits precariously between a quest for spiritual vitality and a sense of the overwhelming materiality of our world. Identifying with the clown, the nomad and the thief figures whose ghostly marginality haunt this book, Lauterbach brings us, with a dazzling range of formal and imagistic resources, to a new understanding of how language inscribes the relationship between self-knowledge and cultural meaning.
Ann Lauterbach's fifth collection takes its title from Emerson's great essay, Experience: "Where do we find ourselves?" he asks. Lauterbach's stair sits precariously between a quest for spiritual vitality and a sense of the overwhelming materiality of our world. Identifying with the clown, the nomad and the thief figures whose ghostly marginality haunt this book, Lauterbach brings us, with a dazzling range of formal and imagistic resources, to a new understanding of how language inscribes the relationship between self-knowledge and cultural meaning.
