Ascent/Descent

Walter Wangerin

Ascent/Descent
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cascade Books
Country
United States
Published
31 August 2020
Pages
92
ISBN
9781725280304

Ascent/Descent

Walter Wangerin

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Walter Wangerin’s Ascent/Descent is a book all but unique in my experience: its components are biographical, geographical, and–how to name it?–obliquely theological. But in all of the collection’s five sections, the principal word that leaps to my mind is lyrical. Rendering the elaborate narrative of his Virginia and Walter, realizing the hieratic voice of Rilke, even translating the Dies irae, so on, Wangerin’s mouth-fillingly rich language draws us so completely into his material that we are unable (and glad of it) to extricate ourselves. Pluperfectly absorbing! –Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-2015)

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