Sarah Cortez

Vanishing Points

Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials
Fotograf: Streck, Dan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Along Texas roadways rest thousands of contemplative shrines, usually marked by small, white metal crosses. Anchored by the stunning photography of roadside memorials by Dan Streck, this landmark book allows four poets to respond to the visual summons of roadside memorials with lyric intensity and eloquent ekphrasis: Larry D. Thomas, Jack B. Bedell, Sarah Cortez, and Loueva Smith. Graphic designer Nancy J. Parsons brings her award-winning skills to perfectly meld photography with poetry in this gorgeous volume. A Plain, White Cross It lists slightly beside the highway. Whoever placed it there > deep into the earth, intimate with the tragedy of wind and driving rain. > of erasure, they left it nameless, just a simple wooden cross harboring, > of unbearable loss. As if lit from within with white light, it glows > white light stark as the grief of the bereaved, white as the clouds above, > Larry D. Thomas

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Texas Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 282mm x 218mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781680031584
• ISBN-10: 1680031589
• Artikelnr.: 50438840

Autorenporträt

SARAH CORTEZ, resident of Houston, is the author of two poetry collections, How to Undress a Cop and Cold Blue Steel, a finalist in the Writers' League of Texas awards, and a memoir, Walking Home: Growing Up Hispanic in Houston . She is the winner of the PEN Texas literary award in poetry and the Southwest Book Award.