Their Stories, Our History (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Letter signed by the author laid-in
History is not merely a record of dates and events — it is a chorus of human voices, each carrying the weight of lived experience, and Peter Gerhardt's Their Stories, Our History gives those voices verse and breath. This collection of poems bridges the personal and the historical, presenting intimate narratives that illuminate the broader sweep of time, memory, and identity, inviting readers into a deeply felt reckoning with the past. Gerhardt's poetry is distinguished by its lyrical precision and its commitment to bearing witness — each poem chronicles a fragment of human experience that, together, form a mosaic of collective memory. Published by The Helicon Press, a name synonymous with thoughtful literary output, this volume argues quietly but powerfully that history is not an abstraction but a living inheritance. Readers who believe they know where the past ends and the present begins may find, by the final page, that the boundary has dissolved entirely.
Author: Peter Gerhardt
Format: Paperback
Published: 2003, The Helicon Press
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Letter signed by the author laid-in
History is not merely a record of dates and events — it is a chorus of human voices, each carrying the weight of lived experience, and Peter Gerhardt's Their Stories, Our History gives those voices verse and breath. This collection of poems bridges the personal and the historical, presenting intimate narratives that illuminate the broader sweep of time, memory, and identity, inviting readers into a deeply felt reckoning with the past. Gerhardt's poetry is distinguished by its lyrical precision and its commitment to bearing witness — each poem chronicles a fragment of human experience that, together, form a mosaic of collective memory. Published by The Helicon Press, a name synonymous with thoughtful literary output, this volume argues quietly but powerfully that history is not an abstraction but a living inheritance. Readers who believe they know where the past ends and the present begins may find, by the final page, that the boundary has dissolved entirely.