Night Huntress - Softcover

Scott, Joanna Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599481073 ISBN 13: 9781599481074

Publisher: Main Street Rag, 2008

Synopsis

Poems of loss, grief and resolution following the drunk driving death of a young friend.

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From the Author

A Sample Poem:IN THE DAWN VALLEY
Winner of the 2008 Jandall Jarrell Poetry Award

I have come early to this valley where the girl died and the boy was smashed into the earth. The air is cool, the grass wet underfoot. Joe Pye weed, mauve and melancholy, grows tall as a man with a child held on his shoulders, and white flowers on fragile-looking stems rise up all over. Their heads are delicate and intricate, like tatted lace, or stars, or photographs of snowflakes blown up large. They are completely still, as if they have been dried and set in place, stretching out across the valley, almost orderly, almost haunting, almost (I do not want to think of this again) like the small white crosses up and down the road. 

Except that these are not crosses, but flowers. They are their own memorial. And they are alive, I can see that now, because a light breeze has risen and is traveling through the valley, and their heads, one after the other, bow before it. It is a scene both beautiful and tender, with the silver sky of morning in the valley's cleft and the gray mist overhead. The birds' voices are like bells, the insects' voices like the struck metal of a thousand triangles, each note vibrating clear. Somewhere a cow lows, deep and mellow as an organ played in church. 

There is nothing else for me to say, nothing to be done, except, perhaps, to discover the name of these white flowers, or to name them. Yes, I will name them. I will give them a private name, one that only I will know. 

I will call them Flowers of Benediction.

From the Back Cover

"A stunning verse-novel. A simple story of tragedy told through elegant and transcendent prose poems. Brave, melancholic, and benedictory, this is a compelling series of meditations. I highly recommend this to people who ask 'What is a prose poem?'" --Comstock Review     

About this edition

• Publisher: Main Street Rag
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1599481073
• ISBN 13: 9781599481074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66