Ghost Volcano

Sandra M. Gilbert

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Here in her beautiful and brilliant new collection, Sandra Gilbert collects the poems she wrote in memory of her husband's unexpected and inexplicable death. "Widow's Walk, " the book's centerpiece, charts the poet's journey through the stages of grief, from the bleak moments when her lost love seems massive as a ghost volcano, "dead/and gigantic and frozen in reproach, " so that there is "nowhere/you are not, nowhere/you are not not, " to the tenuous instant when she realizes that she must "send you forth ... musing and lit with your own past toward the unimaginable ice cliffs, / south of the south." At the same time, in longer and more formal worksespecially the two ambitious sequences "Notes on Masada" and "Water Music" - Gilbert seeks both to elegize her husband and to understand his death in public, political, and philosophical contexts. Ghost Volcano is a tender, courageous, loving, and ultimately universal account of how we endure grief.

Book Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: Mar 17th, 1997
Pages: 112
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.14in - 5.47in - 0.38in - 0.34lb
EAN: 9780393314472
Categories: • American - African American & Black

About the Author

Gilbert, Sandra M.: - Sandra M. Gilbert (1936--2024) was a distinguished literary critic and poet. Together with Susan Gubar, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBCC.

Praise for this book

These visionary, brilliant poems merit every honor. They are in the realm of great art.--Ruth Stone

This widow's walk is full of . . . moments of great beauty.-- "Library Journal"

Vulnerable, bitter and courageous, Gilbert confronts grief directly--and endures.-- "Publishers Weekly"