This Way About - Softcover

Hoover, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491760370 ISBN 13: 9781491760376

Publisher: iUniverse, 2015

Synopsis

“Hoover’s poetry seems to me closely related to her music. We often speak of poetry as “musical” when in addition to the meaning of the words their sound has its own interest… These poems are frequently deeply heartfelt. They are also wonderfully varied.”

-Leslie Gerber (music critic, poet, and author of “Lies of the Poets”)

And so we began a

silent circling vigil

I, moving, pausing

the hawk lifting, gliding

then perching nearby,

a long, liquid dance.

Music,my love,

you spoke to me as a child

watering the desert of my heart;

beckoning with urgency

you took my soul

for your own.

Well, handsome, I guess it’s

not in the stars but

I’ll have

the touch of your suede

vest and the sweep

of your shoulders

to go

I took some leaves

a spider web

flowers, rain

I cut them in pieces

sewed them in strips

and bound them with

ribbons.

Running in the park

electric exhilaration

in a brisk wind

sweatshirts, ruddy cheeks and

brotherhood

with the fast and slow

About this title

About the Author:

Katherine Hoover’s poems cover a wide span of time, forming a counterpoint to her life as a musician. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and a faculty member of the Juilliard Preparatory and Manhattan Schools, she has led a gratifying life as both performer and composer, and now reveals her secret addiction to the written word as well.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1491760370
• ISBN 13: 9781491760376
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108