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On a Stair

Ann Lauterbach's fifth collection takes its title from Emerson's great essay, Experience: "Where do we find ourselves?" he asks. Lauterbach's stair sits precariously between a quest for spiritual vitality and a sense of the overwhelming materiality of our world. Identifying with the clown, the nomad and the thief figures whose ghostly marginality haunt this book, Lauterbach brings us, with a dazzling range of formal and imagistic resources, to a new understanding of how language inscribes the relationship between self-knowledge and cultural meaning.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 112
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-058793-7
  • EAN
  • 9780140587937
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 1997