| Author/Contributor(s): | Hinsey, Ellen |
| Publisher: | University of Notre Dame Press |
| Date: | 09/15/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In Update on the Descent, Ellen Hinsey draws on personal experience and family tragedy to forge a masterful meditation on the extremes of the human condition. A poet who situates herself in a landscape steeped in the tragic history and artistic splendor of Europe, Hinsey suffuses her work with the urgency of historical memory. Alternating lyrics, aphorism, anti-lyrics, and philosophical notebooks, she explores the nature of terror, war, tyranny, and violence as well as reconciliation and renewal of the human spirit. Called by Carolyn Forche, A true poet, whose sense of line, cadence, and tonality is unsurpassed among poets of her generation, Hinsey brilliantly contributes to the tradition of poetry as a witness to history.