The white fire of time / Ellen Hinsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinsey, Ellen, 1960-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

ix, 93 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2002.

Summary:

In This exquisite new book-length sequence, Ellen Hinsey explores the boundary between poetry and metaphysics, and the intimate bonds between morality and mortality. A modern examination of the Vita Contemplativa, The White Five of Time draws on a breadth of cultural knowledge and a deep understanding of the wisdom of the body. The poems in this singular collection are visionary meditations which investigate, as Hinsey writes, "that wild chaos where life's power endures." The work is composed in three sections: The World, meditations on the ordinary, the daily life of the body and its place in nature and time; The Temple, investigations into language and the ethical life; and The Celestial Ladder, in which poems trace the soul's spiraling journey through desire, love, grief and endurance. Each section mirrors the structure of the whole, with poems following specific forms, serving to create a symphonic rhythm in which details, metaphors and meanings build and interweave.

Contents:

Part 1 The World 1

Intermezzo 25

Part 2 The Temple 31

Intermezzo 59

Part 3 The Celestial Ladder 63.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-[92]) and index.

ISBN:

0819565563

0819565571

OCLC:

49679468