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1 online resource (90 pages) |
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Hamadryad -- The Exile Speaks -- On the Air, Fragrant -- Two Deaths -- The Secret of Childhood -- Breathing Fire -- Toward Home -- Late Photo of My Mother -- Eavesdropping -- Under the Mead Moon -- Cold February -- The Poplar Adrift -- Feast -- Wych Elm -- Lemon, Olives, Garlic, Oregano -- Tree as Temple -- Burning, Summer 2006 -- Mephitis Mephitis -- Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) -- Homage to the Green Heron -- Summer Canticle -- Thin Places -- Inland Gulls -- Alluvial, Estuarial -- The Amputee Dance |
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""The Surprise""""Splinter""; ""Silver Meadow""; ""Salix Nigra: Black Willow""; ""Scotchbroom""; ""A Field Guide to the Trees""; ""Elegy for R.""; ""Midsummer�s Eve""; ""Homage to Jack""; ""Three Hunters Kneeling""; ""Crosscreek Blues""; ""Ode to a Tin That Held Ashes""; ""In the Pine�s Shadow""; ""Early Meditation""; ""Tawny Light""; ""Views from Loughcrew""; ""Wetlands""; ""Stone-Hunting""; ""Under a Spell""; ""The Quivering""; ""Psalm to the Toad""; ""Plein Air Panegyric""; ""For Him""; ""Fifty-Fifty""; ""Comes to Rest (After Cavafy)""; ""Caladium""; ""Sweet Vernal Grass"" |
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Two VistasWays to Measure -- Against Memorials -- She Walks into the Sea |
| Summary |
Patricia Clark's poems explore not only refuge but also wonder and appreciation, as well as astonishment. A number of the 56 poems collected here show her grappling with loss, especially the loss of her mother, though she isn't one to indulge in misery. Instead, she goes walking. It is the harp tree in 'The Poplar Adrift' that Clark imagines giving voice to sorrow, thus sparing those who stroll by-'all the grief that passes' becoming, in the tree's very fibers, sound on the air, a wind through branches and leaves. Clark also finds opportunities for learning, for meditation, and for contemplation. Octavio Paz has written, 'Nature speaks as though it were a lover.' In many of the poems collected here, Clark listens to nature speaking and revels in this lover, aiming to capture some of the qualities of Michigan's trees, birds, and landscapes in lyric poems. It is Clark's particular gift to give us 'tasted' as she draws her readers into the world, inhabiting the worlds of nature, head, and heart |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Poetry
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poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Poetry
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poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781609170158 |
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1609170156 |
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9781628952506 |
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1628952504 |
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