This Close to the Earth: Poems - Softcover

ENID, SHOMER; Shomer, Enid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557282560 ISBN 13: 9781557282569

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press, 1992

Synopsis

The Pope Joan section, 1992 winner of the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry Magazine

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From the Back Cover

Moving through the cycle of birth, growth, and death, the poems of Enid Shomer are informed by physical knowledge, transforming it into rare and often startling insight. This Close to the Earth celebrates the courage to live intensely in the body. Here are loves, lives, and losses, retold with the energy that bare emotion commands. Peopled by almost touchable characters - John James Audubon, for instance sketching his birds in a pre-dawn light, and the unnamed narrator of "Among the Cows", who learns to "breathe with the Holsteins / as a form of meditation" - these poems explore the natural as well as the human landscape in search of the link between knowledge and the physical self. This Close to the Earth plumbs the deepest of human mysteries - the hunger for union with the people and things of this world.

About the Author

Enid Shomer won the Iowa Fiction Prize for her first collection of stories and the Florida Gold Medal for her second. She is also the author of four books of poetry. Her work has appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic", "The Paris Review", and many other publications. She lives in Tampa, Florida.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1557282560
• ISBN 13: 9781557282569
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 71