Atlas: Poems

This debut collection of poetry by Katrina Vandenberg draws on different meanings of the title, carrying lines from one poem to the next and capturing the reverberations of events across time and place. One poem links an image of the poet's sister -- paused in housekeeping work -- to a maid in a Vermeer painting and a woman being "made over" on Oprah. Another compares an ex-lover's HIV to a 19th-century tulip epidemic. Quiet yet forthright, intimate yet generous, Vandenberg's poems map the intersections of history, art, love, death, and desire.

Author: Katrina Vandenberg

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Publication Date: Sep 30, 2004

Number of Pages: 128 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1571314199

ISBN-13: 9781571314192