Valuing

Poems
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8203-5570-2
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 116 g

Reihe: The National Poetry Series

In his second collection, Christopher Kondrich navigates the link between what we see as our inner value and the external world that supplies it. <i>Valuing</i>’s deeply personal poems explore faith, love, ethics, and mortality from a variety of angles and through a variety of poetic forms as a means of questioning the origination of one’s own value system. Does it come from the belief in a god, from the love one gives or receives, or from the diminution of the self and its desires? If "you cannot sneak through your life," as the speaker of one of <i>Valuing</i>’s poems proclaims, then how might one ensure that the noise a life inevitably makes is an echo of the values one holds dear?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kondrich, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Kondrich is the author of Contrapuntal and a winner of the Iowa Review Award for Poetry and the Paris-American Reading Series Prize. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in the Antioch Review, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Crazyhorse Harvard Review, the Iowa Review, the Kenyon Review, Witness, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and a PhD from the University of Denver. An associate editor for 32 Poems, he lives and works in Maryland.