Penumbra: Poems

Shewmaker, Michael

ISBN 10: 0821422723 / ISBN 13: 9780821422724

Published by Ohio University Press, 2017

About this Item

Inscribed by the author on the title page to a previous owner. A First Edition, First Printing with a complete numberline. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. 62pp. A Near Fine copy; the dust jacket is Near Fine with minor edgewear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Penumbra: Poems
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821422723
• ISBN 13: 9780821422724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Penumbra―Michael Shewmaker’s debut collection―explores the half-shadows of a world torn between faith and doubt. From intricate descriptions of the rooms in a dollhouse, to the stark depiction of a chapel made of bones, from pre-elegies for a ghostly father, to his compelling treatment of his obsessed, human characters (a pastor, a tattoo artist, a sleepwalker, to name only a few), these are poems that wrestle with what it means to believe in something beyond one’s own mortality. Learned and formally adept, these poems consist of equal parts praise and despair. They announce Shewmaker as an important new voice in American poetry.

About the Author

Michael Shewmaker is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, his poems appear in Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, Parnassus, Oxford American, New Criterion, Narrative, and elsewhere. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Emily.