Four Way Books, 2014 Paper: 978-1-935536-43-7 Library of Congress Classification PS3566.R814A6 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Churches explores the way our experience of the world is shaped through the stories we tell about ourselves. These poems braid multiple narratives that often take place in different times, or are seen through the eyes of various speakers. Here Prufer explores the interior and subjective nature of time as he engages with mortality, both as a cultural construct and a deeply personal, unarticulatable anxiety: “In this filtered light, / my brain is a nimbler thing, and strange. It loves / the slow derangements distance brings.”
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
KEVIN PRUFER is the award-winning author of 5 previous poetry collections. Recipient of fellowships from the NEA and Lannan Foundation, he teaches at the University of Houston.
Churches explores the way our experience of the world is shaped through the stories we tell about ourselves. These poems braid multiple narratives that often take place in different times, or are seen through the eyes of various speakers. Here Prufer explores the interior and subjective nature of time as he engages with mortality, both as a cultural construct and a deeply personal, unarticulatable anxiety: “In this filtered light, / my brain is a nimbler thing, and strange. It loves / the slow derangements distance brings.”
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
KEVIN PRUFER is the award-winning author of 5 previous poetry collections. Recipient of fellowships from the NEA and Lannan Foundation, he teaches at the University of Houston.