SIGNED. 77pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. In a dust jacket, with light edge wear. Winner of the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the half title, and additionally signed by him on the title page.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Empty Boat

Publisher

Truman State University Press; New Odyssey Series, Kirksville, MO

Publication Date

2004

Language

English

ISBN 10

1931112444

ISBN 13

9781931112444

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Near fine

Dust Jacket Condition

very good

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Poetry

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Synopsis

In finely wrought, image-driven poems, The Empty Boat explores the spiritual and aesthetic dimensions of the human relationship to the natural world, asking how nature speaks to us and what wisdom and solace it may offer the tragic aspects of our lives. From haunting poems that give voice to losses and seek redemption in wilderness, to those that celebrate ecstatic moments of mystical vision, the book s trajectory moves ever toward Taoist landscapes of thought. The book concludes with the return of love and re-imaginings of the relationship of presence and emptiness in our lives.

About the Author

Michael Sowder is assistant professor of English at Utah State University. The Empty Boat won the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Sowder s chapbook, A Calendar of Crows, was winner of the 2001 New Michigan Press chapbook award, and his poems have appeared in anthologies and journals.

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