Vanitas: Poems

vanitas: A still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre incorporating symbols of mortality or mutability. --The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Jane McKinley weaves together memories, myths, and interior worlds to create a vanitas of her own. With an oboist's mastery of rhythm and form and a painterly eye for detail, the poet retraces scenes from her childhood, allowing us to witness its shattering conclusion: the death of a beloved sister and its silent aftershocks.

Author: Jane McKinley
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 02/15/2011
Pages: 124
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.80w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780896726840

About the Author
Jane McKinley is a professional oboist and artistic director of the Dryden Ensemble, a Baroque chamber music group based in Princeton, New Jersey. Her poems have appeared in the Georgia Review, the Southern Poetry Review, and on Poetry Daily. Her sonnet Mud Season won the 2008 Patricia Dobler Award from Carlow University. She lives in Hopewell, New Jersey."