The Vine Temple - Paperback

by Kathleen Driskell (Author)

Poems that meditate on light and darkness in the natural world.

In The Vine Temple, Kathleen Driskell invites readers to walk with her through past landscapes, including a Confederate cemetery near her turbulent childhood home and more recent hikes in a nearby park, where the sacred and sublime reveal themselves in the natural world. Driskell's poems examine the transmutability of human language and its ability to liberate and exhilarate, while at the same time often encouraging terrible darkness.

Author Biography

Kathleen Driskell is the author of numerous books and poetry collections, including Next Door to the Dead, winner of the Judy Gaines Young Book Award. Her poems and essays have appeared in Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Rattle, Appalachian Review, and many other literary magazines. She is chair of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.