Waiting For The Paraclete (Barnard New Women Poets)

About this book

The people in Lise Goetts stunning collection are waiting-restlessly blindly hopefully-for the one who gives succor the Paraclete of the title. With a vision both expansive and acute Goett takes in everything from a fishing accident in Wisconsin to a butchers stall in Paris and even the life and death of Gary Gilmore to focus with a rare combination of emotional exactitude and music on the forces that govern the world of the flesh as it transforms into the world of the spirit.