From the first sumptuous poem--featuring a protagonist who, while running at night, thinks of her body as a nocturnal bloom--this collection immerses readers in the compelling voice of Sarah Corbett. The first half of this new volume is devoted to poems that re-create scenes from a youth haunted by trouble, but redeemed by a strong attachment to the beauties of nature, bravely eschewing lightness and irony for a passionate and intensely physical response to life. The latter half moves away from personal history and focuses on in-depth and often scary narratives of other lives, while closely identifying with survivors of trauma. In the long poem "Testimony" she inhabits the voice of a woman at the center of the murder investigation in which her partner was killed. Another sequence, "Cuttings," weaves a week's worth of international press clippings together, thereby creating an alternately horrible, sad, funny, and odd tapestry of events.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.

1904. Since 1891 The Vahan has been the vehicle for the exchange of opinion among members of the European Section of the Theosophical Society. It is in answer to the demand for the information thus accumulated during so many years, much of it being the work of the older and more experienced students of theosophy, that the present volume has been prepared. It includes answers by Annie Besant, G.R.S. Mead, Bertram Keightley, A.P. Sinnett, C.W. Leadbeater, Dr. A.A. Wells and others.

Since 1891 The Vahan has been the vehicle for the exchange of opinion among members of the European Section of the Theosophical Society. It is in answer to the demand for the information thus accumulated during so many years, much of it being the work of the older and more experienced students of theosophy, that the present volume has been prepared. It includes answers by Annie Besant, G.R.S. Mead, Bertram Keightley, A.P. Sinnett, C.W. Leadbeater, Dr. A.A. Wells and others.