{"product_id":"lacunae-new-poems-paperback","title":"Lacunae: New Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eScott Cairns\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainable\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOften, when speaking of what he has called the \u003ci\u003epoetic operation of language\u003c\/i\u003e, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our \"glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space.\" This is the poet's continuing fascination with \u003ci\u003elacunae\u003c\/i\u003e, those spaces, those openings that offer more \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e than appearances can register from outside the ostensible covert of their terms. Cairns is here focused upon how an image, a word, or--in the case of the Theotokos--\u003ci\u003ea womb\u003c\/i\u003e can contain the uncontainable. As Orthodox hymnography avers, she is more spacious than the heavens. So, too, the poet suggests, in its own, modest way, the poem might give birth to more, and more, and yet more than even the poet supposes.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLibrettist, essayist, translator, and author of nine poetry collections, \u003cb\u003eScott Cairns\u003c\/b\u003e is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Missouri. His poems and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of \u003ci\u003eBest American Spiritual Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 8.54 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725585190975,"sku":"9781640608818","price":27.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/74044d33495b037bb9e0a2d08f1085b5.webp?v=1765107148","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/lacunae-new-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}