Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Women Authors

Collected here for the first time, these early poems inhabit Kumin's own "sneakstorm time," a space one step to the side, where quiet introspection examines the pain of loss, the idealism of youth, and the endurance of the natural world. Her characteristic earthy wisdom snaps with intensity, offering a refreshing perspective on everyday experiences. "New England farm life, modern American history, Jewish identity and a quietly vibrant feminist consciousness provide themes for this gathering from a long and distinguished career." Publishers Weekly

The volume includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the...

"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." --The Economist
Simone Weil described "decreation" as "undoing the creature in us" -- an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these...

"Pebble in a Boat" invites you to step into a continuous stream of inspiration and encouragement as you read a refreshingly honest collection of poems that delves deep beneath the surface of everyday experiences to search out the gifts often hidden in the mundane and difficult times of life.

"The cloud like a thumbprint"

"in a grey sky, was erased by"

"the approaching night."

"A slight breeze blew tall bare"

"Branches back and forth."

"How softly they danced into"

"The darkness, the way I want"

"To dance as I move through the years."

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