{"product_id":"a-gilded-lapse-of-time-poems-9780374523992","title":"A Gilded Lapse of Time: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eNadine Gordimer once remarked that Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poems \"move me in a way that I don't really think I have experienced since I first read Rilke at sixteen or seventeen.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Gilded Lapse of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Schnackenberg's third volume, is presented in three sections: the title sequence, concerning a visit to Dante's tomb in Ravenna; \"Crux of Radiance,\" a series of poems exploring the making and unmaking of the image of God in scenes from the Passion narrative; and \"A Monument in Utopia,\" about the destruction of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam at the hands of Stalin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSetting legends of the Creation against history's record of catastrophe, setting acts of miraculous art-making against themes of God's world-making, the poems in \u003ci\u003eA Gilded Lapse of Time\u003c\/i\u003e search out the relationship between poetry and history, the ways they haunt one another, and the guilt that poetry and history share in one another's unfolding. The poet's treatment of the themes of human and divine handiwork--of earthly and celestial love, faith and refusal, oblivion and remembrance--attains to an incandescent vision of the past as a realm that lies before rather than behind us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGjertrud Schnackenberg\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1953. \u003ci\u003eThe Throne of Labdacus \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2000) received the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323781255442,"sku":"9780374523992","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_06846c1c-280d-43a6-b9c4-1bba604524f5.jpg?v=1727661293","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-gilded-lapse-of-time-poems-9780374523992","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}