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Written by the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Pharaoh, Pharaoh is a meditation on time, memory, inheritance, and the irony of lossloss of ones land, of ones past, of love itself. With senses keenly attuned to every nuance of light and landscape, Claudia Emerson Andrews invests her lines with a scriptural fire. She captures equally and with apparent effortlessness the bewilderment of the culturally bereft in the stuttered eloquence of an auctioneer and the evanescence of appearances in the image of a dying firefly coughing up light. In this postlapsarian pastoral of the modern Southeast, Andrews summons a cast of characters bound to times and places of desolation, yet unable to leave because it is that very desolationthe plagues, the scourges, the losses and heartbreakthat has defined them. Their collective cry of exultant despair is compressed in the astonishing final lines of Plagues: Pharaoh, Pharaoh, as if there were something keeping us, as if we could be let go. Andrews brings to these poems a vision so clear, so miraculously right, that the pages themselves seem suffused with the scents of sunlight and new-mown hay. Pharaoh, Pharaoh is a lovely, spellbinding re

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Author

Sarah Catherine Clements

Publisher

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807121597

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.56 / 5 (43 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14