Isbn: 9781639805433 - wild silence (10 risultati)

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There is a pleasing formality and richness of detail in the poems of Elizabeth McCarthy's Wild Silence. Many of her best poems in this chapbook are memory poems, casting back to girlhood when she and her friends walked 'barefoot into summer nights, /under a watchful moon, /[roaming] our small town roads'; or recalling her Irish predecessors who suffered the potato famine 'there/in the green fields where Celtic gravestones/now stand crooked, moss and lichen covered'; or offering nostalgic meditations on her own and her parents' generations - 'the highwater marks. of our family's epic events.' McCarthy also examines the natural world of Vermont, finding lessons and analogies in its flora and fauna - whether tracking the way blue morning glories open to the music of the day or watching how a heron stands 'at the edge of water and marsh, /a poised reminder/of patience and time' - that might help humans navigate their own lives on earth. Whatever the subject, McCarthy's poems offer the delights of a sensuous imagistic imagination, accompanied by discursive, meditative appraisals, and a lyrical music that reinforces the emotional engagement with whatever she muses on.…

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