Description: "LSU Press paperback original"--Title page verso.
Review Quotes: Searing and tender, ferocious and delicate, the meticulously crafted lyrics of Anya Silver's Saint Agnostica speak with utter conviction from the outer edges of mortality. In this courageous, relentlessly candid volume, finished just before her death, Silver depicts the challenges of living with stage four breast cancer with her characteristic emotional sensitivity and probing intellect. As always she grapples with her illness through the lens of her faith, a faith that dares to embrace anger and doubt along with gratitude and praise. Silver employs considerable formal ingenuity, a finely tuned ear and inventive wordplay to express the breadth of her devotions--to family, to the mountains and the ocean, to poetry and music and visual art, and to her sisters in the metastatic community. From start to finish Saint Agnostica shimmers with longing and mystery, each poem a prayerful testament to the fragile beauty of life, a reckoning with its inevitable end.-- "Edward Hirsch"