Reverse Rapture

Dara Wier

ISBN 10: 0974635340 / ISBN 13: 9780974635347

Published by Wave Books Apr 2005, 2005

About this Item

Neuware - Interconnected poems in voices of a band of explorers. An epic of memory, hope and questioning.

Seller Inventory # 9780974635347

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reverse Rapture
• Publisher: Wave Books Apr 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974635340
• ISBN 13: 9780974635347
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 155H x 10D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 249 grams

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Synopsis

Complex and intimate, Reverse Rapture is an account of a band of explorers who go sifting through the artifacts and sensations of our times in search of a core. The generous voices of these poems bring the reader along on their quest. In awe of everything, these explorers, and the poems recounting their adventures, create a gorgeous lyrical web filled with new ways of seeing.

Dara Wier is the author of eight previous collections of poems, most recently Hat on a Pond and Voyages in English. The recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and The American Poetry Review, she teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

About the Author

Dara Wier is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006) and Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005). She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. She lives in Massachusetts, where she teaches and directs the MFA writing program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.