Inscriptions (Stahlecker Selections) - Tapa blanda

The poems of Cammy Thomas s second collection, Inscriptions, have an emotional ferocity and lyric intensity that cut to the quick of desolating loss and fraught family legacies. The implacable balm Thomas offers, and the mercy, is her refusal to look away. Daniel Tobin"

"The poems of Cammy Thomas's second collection, Inscriptions, have an emotional ferocity and lyric intensity that cut to the quick of desolating loss and fraught family legacies. ...The implacable balm Thomas offers, and the mercy, is her refusal to look away."--Daniel Tobin (1/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)

A meditation in the face of impermanence, Inscriptions is a book about a family in crisis. Three strong women--a mother, an aunt, and a sister-in-law--serve as focus for the collection as these compressed lyric poems wrestle with illness and "death, / tangy as copper" and the ways in which they reshape a family. Thomas seeks consolation in what endures, discovering a sense of what's sacred in the ordinary.