Paper Cathedrals (Wick First Book)

Creech, Morri

ISBN 10: 0873387163 / ISBN 13: 9780873387163

Published by The Kent State University Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paper Cathedrals (Wick First Book)
• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873387163
• ISBN 13: 9780873387163
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Displaying a range of voices and subjects―from dramatic monologues in the voices of Judas Iscariot and John the Baptist to harrowing personal lyrics of family, time, memory, and loss―Creech’s poems examine the difficulties of belief and the transcendent possibilities of common experience, pushing beyond mere surfaces to explore the “kingdom of desire.”

Paper Cathedrals confronts the tensions between the here and hereafter, gravity and grace, and religious faith and an allegiance to the passing, sensual world.

About the Author

Morri Creech is assistant professor in the Department of Languages at McNeese State University in Louisiana. His poems have been published in the Sewanee Review, the Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry, the Laurel Review, the Southern Review, the Literary Review, and Critical Quarterly. He has received many honors and prizes, including the 1999 Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship, the 1997 Ruth Lilly Fellowship for Young Poets, and a 1998 Pushcart Prize nomination