Deer at Twilight

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-62288-182-6
Verlag: Stephen F. Austin University Press

Buch, Englisch, 88 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

In his fifth collection of poetry, Deer at Twilight, Paul J. Willis offers a vividly imagistic insight into the depths of nature within and around the state of Washington.

Walking on Water, Pyramid Lake

These particular bugs can do it,
dimpling the surface with their feet,
and no one has built a church in their name.
 
Other bugs swim underwater with abandon,
with no blue ribbons to show for it.
That leaves the rest of us to perform
our daily miracles without applause.
 
This rock, forexample,sheared flat
by who knows what torturous force,
left to host its lime-green share
of crustose lichen, that concoction
of algae and fungi which long ago,
not even listening to Rodney King,
decided we can get along if we just try.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Willis, Paul

Über Autor(innen)

Paul J. Willis is a professor of English at Westmont College and a former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry, most recently Say This Prayer into the Past.