Author

Publication

1994 - University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia

Language

English

Word Count

13,250 words, Guess

Page Count

53 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing516268

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3553.A3943 F54 1994

Description

In Figures for the Ghost, Scott Cairns offers postmodern meditations on the problems of epistemology, interpretation and belief. The collection is distinguished by its implicit proposition that uncertainty (or decenteredness) is a pleasurable state. "In their gestures and in their intent, the poems are religious," says Cairns, "but honestly so. Skirting didacticism, they perform a willing trajectory into the unknown."

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The contemporary poetry series

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