The Dark's Humming - Softcover

Merchant, Megan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941783325 ISBN 13: 9781941783320

Publisher: Glass Lyre Press, 2017

Synopsis

The poems in The Dark's Humming find countless ways to settle in your bones, and then in the deepest parts of the psyche. In this collection, poet Megan Merchant, exquisitely brings us to the ledge of ourselves, in intricate ways. There are resonant poems about the delicate and remarkable journey of motherhood. The poet's images and language show us how to walk carefully among the realities of our own shadows. The works guide us to the undiscovered rooms of our own stories, and how to find the symphonies within. Merchant finds ways to intertwine the complexities of mother earth to those tied to her own relationship with her children and her family. We are taken to lilacs in a flood, to birds and branches and the "just tilled earth". By immersing yourself in these poems, you will be "diligent in keeping your body's promise./The only thing it could reasonably desire would be to stay filled".

-- Connie Post
Poet Laureate Emerita of Livermore, CA 2005 to 2009
Author of Floodwater, winner of the 2014 Lyrebird Prize

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Review

These poems seem to come to us from across water, like Old World symphonies that arise from the body’s magnificent frailty, its ability to chronicle and recall people and places we’ve long since forgotten. Yet Megan Merchant’s voice is fresh and alluring, and that’s because she knows, honors, and echoes the writers who came before her—don’t be surprised if you hear Emily Dickinson, say, or Virginia Woolf. Like all the great artists, Merchant starts “like a dog digging a tunnel,” as one of these beautiful poems says, “knowing nothing about the other side, / scampering to catch the fading smell of home.” 
— David Kirby

Edition details

• Publisher: Glass Lyre Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941783325
• ISBN 13: 9781941783320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72