Losing and Finding (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry): 11 - Softcover

Name: Losing and Finding (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry): 11
Author: Karen Fiser
ISBN: 9781574411720

Karen Fiser

9781574411720: Losing and Finding (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry): 11

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ISBN 10: 1574411721 ISBN 13: 9781574411720

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, 2004

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This collection of lyrical poems traces the narrative of the loss of love and intellectual powers and a groping towards a new life after a catastrophic illness. The poems describe suffering and the sudden loss of one's prior life and powers, but they also celebrate the gifts that arise from the heart of suffering - the importance of the smallest things and the ability to pay fierce attention to them. ""It might be a blessing, / lying here, learning to see / the light in these trees,"" she writes.

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About the Author

Karen Fiser earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, an M.F.A. from Mills College, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. After a first career as a philosophy professor, she began writing poems during the onset of a struggle with illness and disability. Her poems have appeared in seven anthologies and many journals. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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