Kyrie Poems

Name: Kyrie Poems
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ISBN: 9780393315615

ISBN-10: 0393315614

ISBN-13: 9780393315615

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ellen Bryant Voight

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In this mosaic of sonnets, Ellen Bryant Voigt takes on a monumental challenge: to conjure up the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, a harrowing but little-recorded event in history. Over twenty-five million lives were lost worldwide, half a million in the United States alone. Focusing first on a family and then branching out, Voigt includes the voices of a soldier writing home, his schoolteacher fiancee, orphaned children, bereft husbands and wives. As seasons pass, the separate voices accumulate into one vast, almost Biblical story: the report of a community in the grip of mounting, untreatable contagion. "How we survived: we locked the doors / and let nobody in". Kyrie is a tour de force of…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.60" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.242