Book of Hours

"Marianne Boruch''s work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention."—The Washington Post

"[H]er patience, her willingness to wait for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to see what is there with a jeweler''s sense of facet and flaw."—Poetry magazine

Endearingly strange, unsentimental, and uniquely structured, in true Rilkean fashion The Book of Hours questions the meaning and si...