HEAVENLY QUESTIONS

HEAVENLY QUESTIONS

<p><i>Heavenly Questions</i>, the first new collection of poems from Gjertrud Schnackenberg since her critically acclaimed <i>The Throne of Labdacus</i>, finds her at the height of her talents and showcases her continued growth as an artist. In six long poems, Schnackenberg's rhyme-rich blank verse, with its densely packed images, shifts effortlessly between the lyric and the epic, setting passion to a verbal music that is recognizably her own.</p><p>An exceptional and moving new collection from one of the most talented American poets of our time, <i>Heavenly Questions </i>is a work of intellectual, aesthetic, and technical innovation―and, more than that, a deeply compassionate and strikingly personal work.</p>