A poem of eight parts, Stephen Sandy's Surface Impressions offers a stunning burst of invention, capacious enough for its grand themes of ecology, religion, and mortality, yet intimate and flexible in its constantly vibrant voice. The narrator, who resembles the poet in some respects, moves through a widening landscape from New England to the cosmos itself, ruminating on the relation between his obsolescent, Romantic love of nature and the emptying of the cup of wildness in our time.
American writers such as Melville, Poe, and Thoreau form a backdrop to the narrator's thoughts of his...
A poem of eight parts, Stephen Sandy's Surface Impressions offers a stunning burst of invention, capacious enough for its grand themes of ecology, rel...
A poem of eight parts, Stephen Sandy's Surface Impressions offers a stunning burst of invention, capacious enough for its grand themes of ecology, religion, and mortality, yet intimate and flexible in its constantly vibrant voice. The narrator, who resembles the poet in some respects, moves through a widening landscape from New England to the cosmos itself, ruminating on the relation between his obsolescent, Romantic love of nature and the emptying of the cup of wildness in our time.
American writers such as Melville, Poe, and Thoreau form a backdrop to the narrator's thoughts of his...
A poem of eight parts, Stephen Sandy's Surface Impressions offers a stunning burst of invention, capacious enough for its grand themes of ecology, rel...
Ranging in form from sonnet to free verse, from meditative to dialog poems, Weathers Permitting explores the themes of friends, family, and faith. Whether contemplating a joyful holiday or a dying friend, a missing child or house repairs, Stephen Sandy follows the twists and turns of the mind, bringing us to unexpected insights and ever-deepening awareness. Religious faith occupies the core of this tightly focused collection, and poems such as "Stable" -- recalling the changes in a family's Christmas ornaments over the years -- reveal a reassuring togetherness in the forbidding environment...
Ranging in form from sonnet to free verse, from meditative to dialog poems, Weathers Permitting explores the themes of friends, family, and faith. ...
This powerful collection explores love and death, success and failure, war and other disasters, with appropriate measures of wit and grief. Profound and rewarding, Overlook showcases the gifts of a master poet at the height of his powers.
This powerful collection explores love and death, success and failure, war and other disasters, with appropriate measures of wit and grief. Profoun...
