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Anaphora: New Poems - Paperback

Anaphora: New Poems - Paperback

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by Scott Cairns (Author)

Anaphora, the repetition of a word or phrase, draws our attention in new ways to the repeated term, and can lead us to moments of epiphany. In Eucharistic settings, anaphora also indicates the specific liturgical moment when the bread and wine are consecrated, becoming what the Eastern Church calls "the Holy Mysteries." Cairns' use of anaphora invites us to see words as doing more than naming, more than serving as arrows pointing to prior substance, but acquiring substance of their own.

Author Biography

Librettist, essayist, translator, and author of ten poetry collections, Scott Cairns is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Missouri. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.

Number of Pages: 112
Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: July 23, 2019
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