The poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg, whom William Logan once called "the most talented American poet under the age of forty," published her first book of poems in 1982. She has since become one of our most respected authors of verse.

Schnackenberg's first three books, collected in Supernatural Love, show the thrilling evolution of a unique voice in today's letters. From an early mastery in which precision and heartbreak are inseparable, her poetry accelerates book by book through the searching, dense, and metaphysical imagery--as well as the cascading syntax--which have become her signature. Whether we are witnessing her classic portrait of Darwin in his last year or discovering the vertiginous brillance of her elegy for the Byzantine monuments of Ravenna, we find in Schnackenberg gemlike poems offered as visionary documents, unmistakable in their glittering range and passion--and never the same twice.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 10/16/2000
ISBN: 9780374527549
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.52w x 0.82d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/14/2000 pg. 347
Library Journal 09/01/2000 pg. 214
New York Times 10/29/2000 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2000 pg. 1589
Library Journal 04/15/2001 pg. 102