The Infant Scholar (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936797547)

Each poem in The Infant Scholar is an homage to those born brilliant and vulnerable, those who carry around with them a great comprehension at odds with their age. These poems are built upon facts and observations unearthed while panning the world for gold: diamonds sewn into the Romanov corsets that deflected bullets, or a lift-off in some early space flight to the moon, with a chimpanzee at the helm; Iphigenia saying goodbye to her beloved daylight, and Edward R. Murrow describing what soldiers heard as they entered prison camps at the end of World War II: "the handclapping of babies."

Author: Kathy Nilsson
ISBN-10: 1936797542
ISBN-13: 9781936797547
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2015
Pages: 78
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d