Morning Knowledge - Softcover

Hart, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268030936 ISBN 13: 9780268030933

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011

Synopsis

In Morning Knowledge, Kevin Hart grieves the passing of his father, while continuing his unique interlacing of the spiritual and the sensuous. A book of elegies and love poems, prayers and lullabies, a book in which poems sing about a museum of shadows and about rats and afternoons, all wrapped in quatrains, Morning Knowledge is a major book by a poet read and loved throughout the world.

About this title

About the Author

Kevin Hart is an Anglo-Australian theologian, philosopher and poet. He is currently Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia. He has received multiple awards for his poetry, including the Christopher Brennan Award and the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry twice. teaches at the University of Virginia. He is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including Young Rain (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009).

Review

"Spiritual yet visceral, learned yet passionate, Australian poet Kevin Hart's work occupies a special place in the libraries of poetry readers throughout the world. . . . Shrouded in hope, Morning Knowledge sees Hart mourning his father's death while carrying on a decades-long project of distilling matters of the spirit and heart into rich and contemplative poetry. . . . Morning Knowledge is Kevin Hart at his peak, alive with deeply lived experience and persistent joy." (Readings Monthly)

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0268030936
• ISBN 13: 9780268030933
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 102