The Assumption - Softcover

Bryan D. Dietrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602260087 ISBN 13: 9781602260085

Publisher: WordFarm, 2011

Synopsis

Like The X-Files or 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bryan D. Dietrich's book of poems The Assumption asks the question, "Are we alone?" Drawing parallels between today's popular science fiction mythologies and far older theological narratives, Dietrich wonders what moves us, what takes us up. Are there aliens? Is there a God? What's the difference? Navigating a constellation of possible answers--from ancient astronauts to traditional teleology to the death of Deity--this collection of interconnected sonnets opts instead for the beauty of the ineffable, setting its sights on the first star to the right and racing straight on past mourning.

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About the Author

Bryan D. Dietrich lives in Wichita, Kansas, and is a professor of English at Newman University. He is the author of six books of poems, Krypton Nights, Universal Monsters, Love Craft, Prime Directive, The Monstrance and The Assumption. Having won The Paris Review Poetry Prize, a "Discovery"/The Nation Award, a Writers at Work Fellowship, the Isotope Editors' Prize, an Asimov's Readers' Choice Award, and the Eve of St. Agnes Prize, Dietrich has also been a finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Series and the Walt Whitman Award, and has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Pulitzer. He has published poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Paris Review, Harvard Review, The Yale Review, Asimov's, Weird Tales and many other journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: WordFarm
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602260087
• ISBN 13: 9781602260085
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 84