From Nothing: Poems - Softcover

Silver, Anya Krugovoy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807163465 ISBN 13: 9780807163467

Publisher: LSU Press, 2016

Synopsis

In her third collection, "From Nothing," Anya Krugovoy Silver follows a mother, wife, and artist as illness and loss of loved ones disrupt the peaceful flow of life. Grounded in the traditions of meditative and contemplative poetry, From Nothing confronts disease and mortality with the healing possibilities of verse. Whether remembering the sound of whispered secrets on a family vacation or celebrating a favorable PET scan, in Silver's keen observations of seemingly mundane moments we glimpse the divine.

"As she addresses profound questions about how to make meaning out of suffering, Silver's poems attest to the power of art to help us face difficult realities in an often painful world. I'm ransacked by the pain and love and urgency of this book. These aren't pretty, redemptive poems about cancer and loss; they're gritty oracles that divide joint from marrow as we stand before coffins, stillbirths, and mastectomy scars. This is one of few poets just brazen enough to be human. In short, Anya Silver doesn't screw around." Tania Runyan, author of "Second Sky" and "A Thousand Vessels""

About this title

About the Author:

ANYA KRUGOVOY SILVER's previous collections include I Watched You Disappear and The Ninety-Third Name of God. She has also published poems in many journals, including Image, Five Points, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, and Christian Century. Silver is an associate professor of English at Mercer University and lives in Georgia with her husband and son.

Review:

"In her stunning new collection, From Nothing, Anya Krugovoy Silver remembers the dead, mourns the dying, and declares her fierce love for our lust, troubled world.  These poems ask hard questions about suffering, just as they show us fairy tales, gardens of roses, a marriage bed, a beloved son. . .. This is an absolutely gorgeous book." --Nicole Cooley, author of Breach and Afflicted Girls

"Anya Krugovoy Silver's new collection, From Nothing, is a superb demonstration of her qualities as a poet, many of which she shares with Claudia Emerson: tact and concision, somber music and level diction in the face of life's imponderables. There are numerous metaphoric moments of fairy-tale grace and gravity, ekphrastic poems that Silver delivers with surgical precision and balances like no other poet.  All of us are born as patients but only a few have the gift of healing in a dark wood." ---Michael Salcman, author of A Prague Spring, Before & After and editor of Poetry in Medicine

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0807163465
• ISBN 13: 9780807163467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80