Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 249 g
Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry Series
Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 249 g
Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry Series
ISBN: 978-0-299-34074-2
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
Blue sky, yellow flowers, cool jazz, and Renaissance poetry all inhabit Betsy Sholl’s latest collection of poetry. Grounded in the everyday but never mundane, these poems remind readers of the wonders that surround us. From a child’s drawing tattooed onto the arm of a mechanic to bats under the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, Sholl points to the richness of life.
As the volume carefully and slowly immerses us in the poet’s world, we gradually begin to understand that this is our journey of exploration as much as hers. Where does one find joy in the face of loss? Why does music exist in a world of grief? How long does it take love to overwhelm pain?
Through these powerful poems we learn to see past the unreliability of memory and into the depth of the present.
The child makes you a blue inch at the top of the page, and it’s still hard for grown-ups to think you come all the way down to the space between grass blades—Excerpt from “Dear Sky”
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
- Acknowledgments
- 1
There Is a Fountain
Big Box
Practice
The Daffodils
On Reading
Bear
Starlings
Morning’s Only Yellow
Thinking of Jonah at the Children’s Museum
The Recital
Hurdy Gurdy
The Birthday Party
- 2
Dear Sky
A rabbi, a minister and a priest walk into a bar
On a Line by Charles Wright
Ladders of Paradise
Once in an Antique Shop
Missing Person
A Showing of Acorns
Ugly Beauty
Bargains
Everest
Happy, Happy, Happy
Slow Night at the Piano Bar
Thomas Merton Experiments with Meditations on Jazz
- 3
The Cocoon
Reading Revelation
On Ladders, Mystical and Otherwise
After the Keynote Address, the Drive Home
Bedtime
Thin Places
Elegy with Bats
Transmigrations
Corcomroe Abbey
The Sparrow in the Banquet Hall
Galway
Whatever Alights
- 4
Knot
At the Dealership
1985
One Step
Advent and Lamentation
Without You
Widow, Walking
The Bridge
Talk Radio
Crossing: Casco Bay
To Vincent Van Gogh in Heaven
Rainy Street, Portland, Maine
The Caterpillar
Miserere Mei, Deus
His Shaving Cuts
- Notes
