Necessary Angels - by Carolyn Maisel (Paperback)

About the Book

"Carolyn Maisel's poems are spoken by a sort of gnostic angel whose impulse is always to describe the indescribable, to say what cannot be said. The remarkable blend of passion and concision such poems required, the discipline they embody mark Maisel as a masterful poet. How fortunate we are to have had her lustrously imaginative spirit among us, and to have, now, this beautiful book."--Christopher Howell

Book Synopsis

"Carolyn Maisel's poems are spoken by a sort of gnostic angel whose impulse is always to describe the indescribable, to say what cannot be said. The remarkable blend of passion and concision such poems required, the discipline they embody mark Maisel as a masterful poet. How fortunate we are to have had her lustrously imaginative spirit among us, and to have, now, this beautiful book."--Christopher Howell

About the Author

Carolyn Maisel was born in Mississippi in 1942 and lived much of her life in Louisiana. She received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Iowa and taught briefly at the University of New Orleans. Her poems were widely published in journals and magazines, incuding The New Yorker and The North American Review; and, in 1978, L'Epervier Press published Witnessing, her only other full length collection of poems. During 1985 she was poet Laureate of Louisiana. Carolyn Maisel died in March, 2006, in Austin, Texas, after a brief battle with lung cancer.