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Synopsis
This powerful debut collection explores the half-shadows of a world torn between faith and doubt. From intricate descriptions of the rooms in a dollhouse, to the stark depiction of a chapel made of bones, from pre-elegies for a ghostly father, to his compelling treatment of his obsessed, human characters (a pastor, a tattoo artist, a sleepwalker, to name only a few), these are poems that wrestle with what it means to believe in something beyond one's own mortality. Learned and formally adept, these poems consist of equal parts praise and despair. They announce Shewmaker as an important new voice in American poetry.
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Michael Shewmaker is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, his poems appear in Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, Parnassus, Oxford American, New Criterion, Narrative, and elsewhere. Born in Texarkana, Texas, he earned an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD in creative writing from Texas Tech University.
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Penumbra: Poems
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Ohio University Press, 2017
ISBN 10: 0821422723
ISBN 13: 9780821422724
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the title page to a previous owner. A First Edition, First Printing with a complete numberline. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. 62pp. A Near Fine copy; the dust jacket is Near Fine with minor edgewear. Seller Inventory # 643830
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