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Of Gods Strangers

A meditation on history and the imagination that bears witness to acts of genocide and to natural disasters in Ethiopia, Haiti, and Sri Lanka, Of Gods & Strangers interweaves lyrical, arresting accounts of our contemporary world with stories of “Empress Dowager” Tzu Hsi, last empress of China (1861-1908). An urgent reminder that poetry can offer us a social consciousness — “in my locked mouth an urge” — Of Gods & Strangers deftly traces the human dimensions of the “great modern machine,” looking to recover the present and its people through the past’s “faulty memory.”

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 112
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781935536178
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2011