Vocabulary of Silence

Poet Veronica Golos has created a conundrum--a vocabulary of silence that acts as a kind of Zen koan for the reader: a negative space, an echo chamber, a mirror. Witnessing from afar the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted by the country in which she lives, the poet also witnesses herself, and struggles to find words to carry the weight of her felt responsibility. Ms. Golos then empties her beautifully wrought poems into the vast silence, filling it with the names of the dead and the living.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 02/01/2011
ISBN: 9781597094986
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.06w x 0.28d
Award: New Mexico Book Awards - Winner