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Arrivals is the third book of poetry by a master of New Formalism and New Narrative. Winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, Mason examines travel, arrival, home.
"Acrostic from Aegina"
Anemones you brought back from the path
Nod in a glass beside our rumpled bed.
Now you are far away. In the -aftermath
Even these flowers arouse my sleepy head.
Love, when I think of the ready look in your eyes,
Erotas that would make these stone walls blush
Nerves me to write away the morning's hush.
Nadir of longing, and the red -anemones
Over the lucent rim-my poor designs,
X-rated praise I've hidden between these lines.
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About the Author
David Mason was co-winner of the 1991 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize with his book, The Buried Houses. His second book, The Country I Remember, won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award in 1996. With Mark Jarman, he edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, which is now in its fourth printing, and in 2002 he issued his collection of essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry. He teaches at Colorado College.
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Mason's third engrossing collection gathers poems of travel--not only to the poets' meccas of Greece, Italy, and Ireland but also to India and New Zealand--an eight-page narrative, and two clutches of poems of personal reminiscence. Besides formal mastery, the poems share a pensive feeling of being midway on life's journey and, if not Dantesquely unable to see the way forward, unsure that it has much to offer. Appropriate to that mood, the opening poem is a version of Cavafy's famous "The City," an achingly beautiful expression of doubt-filled personal crisis, with several such lines as "You'll always end here--don't hope for other places." And, appropriately, the travel poems conclude with Odysseus returning to Ithaka, quite befuddled, for "Awake, I did not know the land." The long "Collector's Tale" concerns its narrator's bitter lesson in disillusion with his trade, and the insight of "The Picketwire" among the recollective poems encapsulates their aura: "A second nature rises from the past, / just like the first in that it will not last." Sad, vivid, intelligent work. Ray Olson
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- PublisherStory Line Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 158654036X
- ISBN 13 9781586540364
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages110
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