UI Press | Corey Marks | Renunciation: Poems

Renunciation

Poems

Awards and Recognition:

Winner of the Natalie Ornish Poetry Award given by the Texas Institute of Letters, 2001.

Renunciation introduces a powerful new poet whose work, though it treads the ground of silence and loss, bears a redemptive grace. Disquieting and healing, Corey Marks's poems hold to "a moment when possibility / bristles so close it holds a shape in the air."

The sculptor Gislebertus, Doubting Thomas, Theseus, and John Keats share space in the pages of Renunciation with a survivor of the bomb in Hiroshima, a blind girl in the South American jungle, and DeSoto's thirteen swine in the hold of a ship bound for America. Rich with almost palpable nuances of light and sound, Marks's lyric meditations unravel a constant play of loss and continuation, "mending sense from spare threads" and hovering over connections undone even as they are made.

"A densely imagined and richly felt poetry where abstractions are clothed in flesh and blood." -- Eugene Weekly

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