{"product_id":"kyrie-poems-9780393315615","title":"Kyrie: Poems","description":"In this mosaic of sonnets, her fifth collection, Ellen Bryant Voigt takes on a monumental challenge: to conjure up the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, a little-recorded event that killed 25 million worldwide, half a million in America alone. \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e calls \u003cem\u003eKyrie\u003c\/em\u003e \"an astonishing collection . . . so spare and tightly woven, yet so mindful of the cadences of the speaking voice, that the poems read like verse drama.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Starting with the family, Voigt creates voices that gather into one vast community story, a \"true tour de force\" (\u003cem\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/em\u003e) that speaks to our own time of plague.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVoigt, Ellen Bryant:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eEllen Bryant Voigt\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of volumes of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eShadow of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award, and \u003cem\u003eMessenger\u003c\/em\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award and for the Pulitzer Prize. Voigt was awarded the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Merrill Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, where she was subsequently elected a chancellor. Her poems have appeared in an array of national journals and anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eThe Pushcart Prize\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Vermont and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324003979538,"sku":"9780393315615","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5af6ce04-2ae8-45f9-ba50-c47b60162ffb.jpg?v=1727664079","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kyrie-poems-9780393315615","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}