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DRINKING THE RIVER IBD

FOMITE
04 / 2021
9781947917644
Anglès

Sinopsi

áThere is elemental life in David PolkâÇÖs poems, intimate moments when it seems our remove from the natural world-fatal to it-can be bridged. It is the poetry of that connection in daily life and the imagination. The great river floods, a blue wasp sails dreamlike through the house. Suddenly a copperhead lies snake-thick across the hikerâÇÖs path.The poetâÇÖs 'mind is at once local and transcendent in its reach,' says the writer William Benton, and 'local' here means the western end of Kentucky where the continentâÇÖs four great rivers join.'áThe watershedâÇÖs birds and wildlife, too, are the bookâÇÖs familiars.The poems often slip seamlessly from narration to meditation. On the Ohio, which is immense here, the poetâÇÖs canoe gains 'on a lily pad broken loose and beside it/ a mouse-pale belly up-no longer resisting/ the forward, the careless and incessant forward.'ááááThe overall sequence of the book follows the seasonal recurrence, and gradually, as it unfolds, a life-span is implied.áThough most of the poems center on our relation to the natural world, there are those too that explore the world of the poetâÇÖs family and other loves.

PVP
14,57