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...survived by his second wife, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, and two children from his first marriage, Emily S. Nozick and David J. Nozick...
...second sequence, "Crux of Radiance," continues to develop the religious overtone of the book, grappling with the Judeo-Christian tradition and the image of God in poetry. Alternately sorrowful and biting, Schnackenberg derides a modern society that has lost touch with its historic roots. Ancient ruins figure prominently in this sequence, symbols of an artistic and spiritual splendor that once existed and has now been abandoned and forgotten. Poetry is described as "a gold thread...you feel your way along" in the search for memory...
...Schnackenberg exhorts us to value that golden thread: "But really you must admit/You're lost/ But really you must not lose the way," she writes of the human condition. This can refer to losing the "way" of the Judeo-Christian tradition, but the poem suggests a further, broader meaning: by losing the connection of poetry to history, we lose a vital way of understanding our past...
...Mandelstam at the hands of Stalin and the death of poetry itself in a cynical society. Primarily concerned with images of death and destruction, the third sequence also holds out a ray of hope for resurrection, a rebirth of faith and idealism. By the end of the third sequence, Schnackenberg encapsulates the whole pageant of human history in a few line...
...this final sequence, Schnackenberg envisions a reintegration of history and art, a reblossoming of poetry as a motivating force in human life. A Gilded Lapse of Time may be an example of that reblossoming; Schnackenberg's rich language and delicate imagery make this book a truly remarkable experience...