Heavenly Questions: Poems

Heavenly Questions, the first new collection of poems from Gjertrud Schnackenberg since the critically acclaimed The Throne of Labdacus (FSG, 2001), is a love poem that finds her at the height of her talents and showcases her continued growth as an artist. In six long poems, Schnackenberg’s rhyme-rich blank verse, with its densely packed images, shifts effortlessly between the lyric and the epic, setting passion to a verbal music that is recognizably her own.

An exceptional and moving new collection from “the most talented American poet” of her generation (William Logan, The New York Times), Heavenly Questions is a work of intellectual, aesthetic, and technical innovation—and, more than that, a deeply compassionate and strikingly personal work.