Excerpts from a secret prophecy

By Joanna Klink

Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), POETRY / American / General, American poetry

Description: "New work from an awardwinning poet Joanna Klink has won acclaim for poetry of bracing emotional intensity. Of her most recent book, Raptus, Carolyn Forche; has written that she is "a genuine poet, a born poet, and I am in awe of her achievement." The poems in Klink's new collection offer a closely keyed meditation on being alone-on a self fighting its way out of isolation, toward connection with other people and a vanishing world"--