The Eddy Fence - Softcover
Poetry. Donna Henderson's new collection traces the contours of the "eddy fence" where love and loss meet. In poems that confront a mother's illness, a forest's destruction, and the struggles to seed new life, she discovers a difficult beauty and passage to healing. Here we encounter a restless intelligence in dialogue with itself, seeking to enter the world more entirely through deeper and deeper seeing.
"Though the forest be gone, still 'the woods were in the song.' So Henderson describes the thrush, singing on, like her, the once 'green and cool surround' nothing now but a naked clear-cut hill, whose logging and loss is paralleled by her mother's dying. In the transit of these light- filled, sensuous poems, an acute consciousness turns mourning to praise in large-hearted lines—'spacious...enough to hold all the trees / and their absence, and every other thing.'"—Eleanor Wilner
"...strong and moving, remarkably poised in tone and unified as the expression of a distinct voice. Every poem in it needs to be there, the reader believes, listening to a consciousness meditating on loss in relationships with the human and non-human, and negotiating ways to affirm life, nevertheless."—Joan Aleshire
"...remarkable...Its music is quiet, its intelligence is omni- present. The book has tremendous range in topic—nature, relationship, loss, spirituality."—Karen Brennan
"Though the forest be gone, still 'the woods were in the song.' So Henderson describes the thrush, singing on, like her, the once 'green and cool surround' nothing now but a naked clear-cut hill, whose logging and loss is paralleled by her mother's dying. In the transit of these light- filled, sensuous poems, an acute consciousness turns mourning to praise in large-hearted lines—'spacious...enough to hold all the trees / and their absence, and every other thing.'"—Eleanor Wilner
"...strong and moving, remarkably poised in tone and unified as the expression of a distinct voice. Every poem in it needs to be there, the reader believes, listening to a consciousness meditating on loss in relationships with the human and non-human, and negotiating ways to affirm life, nevertheless."—Joan Aleshire
"...remarkable...Its music is quiet, its intelligence is omni- present. The book has tremendous range in topic—nature, relationship, loss, spirituality."—Karen Brennan
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Donna Henderson is the author of two previous chapbook collections of poems, of which the first, Transparent Woman, was a finalist for the 1997 Oregon Book Award in Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in journals, anthologies and other venues, and have received numerous recognitions, including two Pushcart Prize nominations. Raised in Oregon's Willamette Valley, Donna received a BA in Education from the University of Massachusetts, and holds both an M.S.W. from Portland State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. She is a practicing psychotherapist, teaches creative writing at Willamette University, performs with the piano and poetry performance trio Tonepoem of which she is a co-founder, and lives with her husband, Rich Sutliff, in Maupin, Oregon.
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- PublisherAirlie Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0982106602
- ISBN 13 9780982106600
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages71
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