Ghost Volcano: Poems - Hardcover

Gilbert, Sandra M.

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ISBN 10: 0393037835 ISBN 13: 9780393037838

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1995

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A collection of poems written in memory of her husband, who died suddenly and inexplicably during routine surgery, reflects the author's journey through the stages of grief as she tries to understand his death

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From the Back Cover:

Here in her beautiful and brilliant new collection, Sandra Gilbert collects the poems she wrote in memory of her husband's unexpected and inexplicable death. 'Widow's Walk, ' the book's centerpiece, charts the poet's journey though the stages of grief, from the bleak moments when her lost love seems massive as a ghost volcano, 'dead / and gigantic and frozen in reproach, ' so that there is 'nowhere / you are not, nowhere / you are not, ' to the tenuous instant when she realizes that she must' send you forth....musing and lit with your own past toward the unimaginable ice cliffs, / south of the south.'

About the Author:

Sandra M. Gilbert has published numerous volumes of criticism as well as collections of poetry and a memoir. She is coeditor (with Susan Gubar) of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women and a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. A Distinguished Professor of English emerita at the University of California, Davis, she lives in Berkeley, California.

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