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- catalog abstract "In Figures for the Ghost, Scott Cairns offers postmodern meditations on the problems of epistemology, interpretation and belief. The collection is distinguished by its implicit proposition that uncertainty (or decenteredness) is a pleasurable state. "In their gestures and in their intent, the poems are religious," says Cairns, "but honestly so. Skirting didacticism, they perform a willing trajectory into the unknown."".
- catalog contributor b5933491.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "In Figures for the Ghost, Scott Cairns offers postmodern meditations on the problems of epistemology, interpretation and belief. The collection is distinguished by its implicit proposition that uncertainty (or decenteredness) is a pleasurable state. "In their gestures and in their intent, the poems are religious," says Cairns, "but honestly so. Skirting didacticism, they perform a willing trajectory into the unknown."".
- catalog description "The Holy Ghost -- Return Directive -- Prospect of the Interior -- The Glass Man -- Serenade -- The Death of Penelope -- Herod -- Advent -- City Under Construction -- The Lie of the Future -- The History of My Late Progress -- The Beginning of the World -- Murmur -- Dead Sea Bathers -- The Turning of Lot's Wife -- On the Holy Spirit -- The Embarrassment of Last Things -- Sacraments -- The Communion of the Body -- Angels -- Satan -- Baptism -- Blood Atonement -- Grace -- A Recuperation of Sin -- Pain -- The End of Heaven and the End of Hell -- And Also from the Son -- Late Epistle -- Mortuary Art.".
- catalog extent "53 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Figures for the ghost.".
- catalog identifier "0820316016 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Figures for the ghost.".
- catalog isPartOf "Contemporary poetry series (University of Georgia Press)".
- catalog isPartOf "Contemporary poetry series".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
- catalog relation "Figures for the ghost.".
- catalog subject "811/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, American.".
- catalog subject "PS3553.A3943 F54 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Holy Ghost -- Return Directive -- Prospect of the Interior -- The Glass Man -- Serenade -- The Death of Penelope -- Herod -- Advent -- City Under Construction -- The Lie of the Future -- The History of My Late Progress -- The Beginning of the World -- Murmur -- Dead Sea Bathers -- The Turning of Lot's Wife -- On the Holy Spirit -- The Embarrassment of Last Things -- Sacraments -- The Communion of the Body -- Angels -- Satan -- Baptism -- Blood Atonement -- Grace -- A Recuperation of Sin -- Pain -- The End of Heaven and the End of Hell -- And Also from the Son -- Late Epistle -- Mortuary Art.".
- catalog title "Figures for the ghost : poems / by Scott Cairns.".
- catalog type "text".