Books by Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Complete Book Reviews

Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $23 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-28307-0
Admired during the 1980s and 1990s for her glittering way with traditional forms, Schnackenberg (Supernatural Love) published very little for almost a decade: this sometimes heartbreaking, always ornate sixth collection will please her admirers,...
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $19 (143p) ISBN 978-0-374-16226-9
As she tours the ghostly Mausoleum of Galla Placidiasic and Dante's tomb at Ravenna, Schnackenberg ( Portraits and Elegies ) finds in Italian Renaissance art the multifarious inspiration for this remarkable collection of poems. Bold enough to...
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg. Arrowsmith, $18 trade paper (100p) ISBN 979-8-9904050-1-1
Schnackenberg’s meditative latest, her first since 2010’s Heavenly Questions, offers a response to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion that reflects on music and the act of listening. “I’m standing/ In the presence/ Of his wild tribulation,” she writes,...
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