Sparks from a nine-pound hammer : poems / Steve Scafidi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scafidi, Steve.

Series:

Southern messenger poets

Language:

English

Physical Description:

vi, 64 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collection of facts. In a rushing, rolling style, poems sweep to the edge of falling apart, take great delight in defying that dissolution, and come upon a thing redemptive and clarifying: the fact of love. In a world that "doesn't really care / whether we live or die," Steve Scafidi writes, "tell it you do and why." From the unthinkable to the quietly heroic, somehow we have emerged. Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer celebrates that fact most of all.

ISBN:

0807126934

0807126942

OCLC:

45207951