Waiting for the Paraclete

Goett, Lise; Goett, Lisa

ISBN 10: 0807068675 / ISBN 13: 9780807068670

Published by Beacon Press, 2002

About this Item

Signed by Author Virtually new copy, inscribed on title page and signed by author and dated July 12, 2002; intro. by Carol Frost; winner of the 2001 Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Seller Inventory # 8265

Bibliographic Details

Title: Waiting for the Paraclete

Publisher: Beacon Press

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

The people in Lise Goett's stunning collection are waiting-restlessly, blindly, hopefully-for the one who gives succor, the Paraclete of the title. With a vision both expansive and acute, Goett takes in everything from a fishing accident in Wisconsin to a butcher's stall in Paris and even the life and death of Gary Gilmore, to focus with a rare combination of emotional exactitude and music on the forces that govern the world of the flesh as it transforms into the world of the spirit.

About the Author:

Lise Goett has won a Paris Review Discovery Award and an Academy of American Poets Prize, among many other honors. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Antioch Review.