Warn Emily (47 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is a new voice we will all be blessed for hearing.--Susan Griffin.

Paperback. Condition: Good. "Emily Warn is one tough poet. . . . She not only takes on God but also juggles the hot coals of memory and wrestles her way to an honest spiritual life."--The Seattle Times "Warn has created a serious meditation on Jewish prayer and cosmogony, in lyrical prose and in accessible verse, a book that belongs not only on poetry shelves, but amid other Judaica and books of prose and verse on religious themes." --Publishers Weekly ".a sincere exploration of spirituality and the line between the abstract and the concrete." --Library Journal How are words made, and how do they derive power? These are the questions at the core of Emily Warn's Shadow Architect, organized around the twenty-two-letter Hebrew alphabet. Mystics have seen that alphabet as a key to divine intent, since God brought the world into being through speech. But Warn takes a poet's view rather than a theologian's: she sees the alphabet's power to reveal the nature of invention, and the limits of language and knowledge. Shadow Architect channels this power not only through word but through image: each poem begins with an illumination of a Hebrew letter. Within the set boundaries of this alphabet, Warn generates a rich polyphony, uniting her own distinctly American poetics with the language of sacred texts and commentaries. The result is an alluring, postmodernist take on how language means: an architecture not only of shadows, but of "correspondences, analogies, clues, / binaries, metaphors, keys." To invent the alef-beit, decipher the grammar of crows, read a tangle of bare branches with vowels of the last leaves scrawling their jittery speech on the sky's pale page. Emily Warn, author of two previous books of poetry, lives in Seattle and Chicago, where she is the editor of the Poetry Foundation's website.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is a new voice we will all be blessed for hearing.--Susan Griffin.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. "Emily Warn is one tough poet. . . . She not only takes on God but also juggles the hot coals of memory and wrestles her way to an honest spiritual life."--The Seattle Times "Warn has created a serious meditation on Jewish prayer and cosmogony, in lyrical prose and in accessible verse, a book that belongs not only on poetry shelves, but amid other Judaica and books of prose and verse on religious themes." --Publishers Weekly ".a sincere exploration of spirituality and the line between the abstract and the concrete." --Library Journal How are words made, and how do they derive power? These are the questions at the core of Emily Warn's Shadow Architect, organized around the twenty-two-letter Hebrew alphabet. Mystics have seen that alphabet as a key to divine intent, since God brought the world into being through speech. But Warn takes a poet's view rather than a theologian's: she sees the alphabet's power to reveal the nature of invention, and the limits of language and knowledge. Shadow Architect channels this power not only through word but through image: each poem begins with an illumination of a Hebrew letter. Within the set boundaries of this alphabet, Warn generates a rich polyphony, uniting her own distinctly American poetics with the language of sacred texts and commentaries. The result is an alluring, postmodernist take on how language means: an architecture not only of shadows, but of "correspondences, analogies, clues, / binaries, metaphors, keys." To invent the alef-beit, decipher the grammar of crows, read a tangle of bare branches with vowels of the last leaves scrawling their jittery speech on the sky's pale page. Emily Warn, author of two previous books of poetry, lives in Seattle and Chicago, where she is the editor of the Poetry Foundation's website.…

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In pictorial wraps, 8vo, 58pp. Sally Warn (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Thus. light shelfwear and rubbing to wraps, name in ink. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sally Warn (illustrator). Book.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In pictorial wraps, 8vo, 114pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade paperback. Light to moderate shelf wear to covers. Binding square and tight. No creasing to spine. No loose pages. No highlighting, notation, or remainder marks. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores. Sally Warn (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Clean, unmarked copy, very nice.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Glossary of the Hebrew alphabet on the insides of the wraps. Slight surface wear, appears new.

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. First Edition. As new. Signed by author.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Copper Canyon Press, 1996. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

1982. Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Inscription on half title page, and letter from author enclosed. ; 58 pages. Sally Warn (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Copper Canyon Press 1996-07-01 00:00:00 Binding: Trade Paperback NF. in wraps dj. 114 pages. Trade pb edition. 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. several pages in back and the back cover have a slightly bent upper corner, otherwise it is a perfect cop -- inscribed and signed by the author. Inscribed and Signed By the Au.