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Poems set in Italy and in the small towns of rural New England deal with culture, mortality and religion
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In Lea's fourth book of poetry, many of the 26 poems, incorporating lines from the Bible, implicitly offer praise while depicting seasonal changes, travel to Italy, and the bleak lives of New England farmers and fishermen ("Ice-fishers' lights. O little city/ . . . how still we see thee"). With lyrical grace, he elucidates the diurnal in terms of the spiritual: comforting his dying brother, his mother is seen as a pieta; during a duck-hunting trip, duck, dog, farmer, and man stand in a moment of mystery against "the awful snow," symbolizing "how we must seek to save forever/ what we receive of what goes by." In poems that explore the spiritual dimensions of the human condition, Lea, like Robert Frost, seeks out simple fishermen's lives to find answers for a complex struggle with mortality.
- Frank Allen, Regents Coll., Albany, N.Y.
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Amputee
Another Autumn, And Again The Trees' Loud Story
At The Flyfisher's Shack
Clouded Evening, Late September
D-day Ode For Dean
Do Not Trust In These Deceptive Words
February - Winter! Lightning! Thunder!
For Faith
For The Solitary
Guy And Robert Do It The Older Way
In Cold What We See Are The Parson's Wraithy Breaths
Late Season
Locked Though We Were In Our Own Sick, Aching Flesh
Manifest (litany: Winter Walk)
Museum
On Munson Island
Over Brogno
Pianissimo
Pieta
Questions Of Empathy Way Upstate
Roadside, February
The Shroud Of White Is Leaching From
Still Dark When We File Like Children Out On The Turf
Sun, Rising
Two Chets
Winter Tournament
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0684191296
- ISBN 13 9780684191294
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages69
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