Heaven's Thieves

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Heaven's Thieves by Sue Sinclair, Brick Books
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Sue Sinclair ISBN: 9781771314312
Publisher: Brick Books Publication: July 1, 2016
Imprint: Brick Books Language: English
Author: Sue Sinclair
ISBN: 9781771314312
Publisher: Brick Books
Publication: July 1, 2016
Imprint: Brick Books
Language: English

Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions -- What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us? What is the point of art? -- and the urgent ones -- how to live in a shattered ecology, what to do about grief, illness, betrayal. Sinclair turns her attention to these questions with fearless curiosity, economy, and an originality born of her willingness to pursue her own line of inquiry to its limit. These poems get close and cut deep, mixing subject and object, surface and soul: "Red mud glistens / like cut fruit -- or like the knife / that did the cutting, laid down." In this, her fifth collection, Sinclair knows that nature is both "done to death" and "inexhaustible;" that art is an elegy for experience. Experience and its value are changed in these poems. They are as wise as they are disruptive, and they change us as surely as they remake the world.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions -- What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us? What is the point of art? -- and the urgent ones -- how to live in a shattered ecology, what to do about grief, illness, betrayal. Sinclair turns her attention to these questions with fearless curiosity, economy, and an originality born of her willingness to pursue her own line of inquiry to its limit. These poems get close and cut deep, mixing subject and object, surface and soul: "Red mud glistens / like cut fruit -- or like the knife / that did the cutting, laid down." In this, her fifth collection, Sinclair knows that nature is both "done to death" and "inexhaustible;" that art is an elegy for experience. Experience and its value are changed in these poems. They are as wise as they are disruptive, and they change us as surely as they remake the world.

More books from Brick Books

Cover of the book Songs for Relinquishing the Earth by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book Summer Grass by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book Calm Jazz Sea by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book Glass by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book Mahoning by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book Sharawadji by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book The Banquet of Donny and Ari by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book The Secret Signature of Things by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book The Truth of Houses by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book When This World Comes to an End by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book Steam-Cleaning Love by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book The Whole Elephant by Sue Sinclair
Cover of the book The Pearl King and Other Poems by Sue Sinclair
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy