| Vox Angelica Contributor(s): Liu, Timothy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0914086979 ISBN-13: 9780914086970 Publisher: Alice James Books OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 92010732 |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 5.56" W x 8.62" (0.26 lbs) 72 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Liu's text the ascent, the ecstatic apprehension of the divine (he is a religious poet, there are no two ways about it, though perhaps there are twenty) can be effected only by a demonic insistence upon abjection, upon the descent. He shrives himself, and his poems show the marks of the lash--they are the lash--and his vision is naturalized to a degree that would astonish his predecessors, that astonishes us. This is a shocking poetry, and the shock is not of recognition, but of estrangement. It makes an unfamiliar claim upon us, the claim of apostasy. --Richard Howard, from the forward |