
Soul Cake
Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar(Author)
Persea Books Inc (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 5. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
60 pages
978-0-89255-642-7 (ISBN)
Description
Lisa Russ Spaar's seventh full-length collection of poems, Soul Cake, which takes its title from an ancient mummer/wassailer's carol, leans with late-life, hibernal ecstasy into Spaar's flood subjects: God hunger, soul-making, language, beauty, and an unquenched desire for the b/Beloved. Bodily and mysterious, the poems wrest from their rich, sumptuous, surprising lexicon flashes of dread, beyonding, and gnosis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
114 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89255-642-7 (9780892556427)
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Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of a novel, Paradise Close; six acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems; and The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry, a collection of poetry history and criticism. She was a 2014 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Spaar has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Library of Virginia Award for Poetry, and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors and awards. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, where for many years she directed the MFA program.