Losing and Finding (Volume 11) (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) - Softcover

Fiser, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574411721 ISBN 13: 9781574411720

Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 2004

Synopsis

Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2003.

This collection of lyrical poems traces the narrative of the loss of love and intellectual powers and a groping towards a new life after a catastrophic illness. The poems describe suffering and the sudden loss of one’s prior life and powers, but they also celebrate the gifts that arise from the heart of suffering—the importance of the smallest things and the ability to pay fierce attention to them.

About this title

About the Author

Karen Fiser earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, an M.F.A. from Mills College, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. After a first career as a philosophy professor, she began writing poems during the onset of a struggle with illness and disability. Her poems have appeared in seven anthologies and many journals. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574411721
• ISBN 13: 9781574411720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80