Explore themes of oblivion and remembrance, Earthly and celestial love and faith and refusal, in Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s A Gilded Lapse of Time. This is a work of spiritual imagination in three sections. The titled sequence surrounds a visit to Dante’s tomb in Ravenna, followed by a series of poems that explore the making and unmaking of the image of God. Finally, A Monument in Utopia is a poem that reflects on the destruction of the poet Osip Mandelstam at Stalin’s hands. This is a moving journey that sets legends of the Creation against history’s record of catastrophe. | A Gilded Lapse of Time by Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Paperback | Indigo Chapters