Taking its title from an Audubon painting, American Flamingo shares with the artist an exquisite attention to detail and the suggestion of a larger sense of time and place through depictions of the intimate interactions between creatures and their habitats. In his fifth collection of poetry, Greg Pape melds memorable images from the natural world with the drama of ordinary experience to capture small transformations of human character in American settings from Arizona s Sonora Desert to the icy streets of Washington, D.C. Through elegies, character sketches, and lyric and narrative...
Taking its title from an Audubon painting, American Flamingo shares with the artist an exquisite attention to detail and the suggestion of a la...
These are mature poems, meditative, curious about the world of wild mountains and streams, about death and blessing, about the resonant past that is with us yet. And they are about a kind of stillness that has become rare in modern life, the stillness of a man who actually inhabits his senses.
from "Some Guardian Spirit"
Freezing fog, visibility maybe a hundred yards.
Frost builds up on the pine needles,
the yellow grass, the leafless cottonwoods
and the sound of hammers, saws,
a compressor kicking on and off
in that other world somewhere...
These are mature poems, meditative, curious about the world of wild mountains and streams, about death and blessing, about the resonant past that i...
