Family Portrait with Scythe: Poems
James Owens' stunning valediction, both for and forbidding mourning, slices with steely memory to the "wet bone." Stumbling with a boy's "ignorant gravity," Owens cannot right the "unbalanced accounts" of his miner father's sooty lungs, his parents' exhausted marriagenor his own professed failings. Yet his keen eye in and of the natural world does lead to the scales balanced, if precariouslyin belonging "on the brief earth," in parsing spring from grief, in "the good story of the body" whose light becomes "the shine of spirit." A master poet works this crescent blade, a master who embraces life's whole catastrophe as equally as he farewells it past.
Linda Parsons, author of This Shaky Earth
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Linda Parsons, author of This Shaky Earth
Family Portrait with Scythe: Poems
James Owens' stunning valediction, both for and forbidding mourning, slices with steely memory to the "wet bone." Stumbling with a boy's "ignorant gravity," Owens cannot right the "unbalanced accounts" of his miner father's sooty lungs, his parents' exhausted marriagenor his own professed failings. Yet his keen eye in and of the natural world does lead to the scales balanced, if precariouslyin belonging "on the brief earth," in parsing spring from grief, in "the good story of the body" whose light becomes "the shine of spirit." A master poet works this crescent blade, a master who embraces life's whole catastrophe as equally as he farewells it past.
Linda Parsons, author of This Shaky Earth
Linda Parsons, author of This Shaky Earth
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ISBN-13: | 9781947504202 |
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Publisher: | Bottom Dog Press |
Publication date: | 04/01/2020 |
Pages: | 114 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d) |
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