MOVING IN MEMORY; Poems by.

RANDALL, Julia

ISBN 10: 0807113875 / ISBN 13: 9780807113875

Published by Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA, 1987

About this Item

8vo, pp. v, 51. Author's presentation on title to poet Barbara Howes; "For Barbara | with admiration | Julie" Rust cloth. Near fine in somewhat soiled dj.

Seller Inventory # 57122

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MOVING IN MEMORY; Poems by.
• Publisher: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807113875
• ISBN 13: 9780807113875
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Moving in Memory, Julia Randall's sixth volume of poems, explores our relationship to nature, to art, and to our past selves. In these poems, Randall's familiar terrain--the woods, streams, and fields of Maryland--becomes our own. She takes us "through the fields/ of Queen Anne's Lace and clover," through woods filled with rock maple and sassafras, to places she discovered as a child.I am Piedmont born and bredbetween far hills and sea,great hardwoods overhead,and waters gentlyfalling down the BayBut these poems also express Randall's uneasiness with trying to exist in a world increasingly divorced from nature. They spring from a sensibility that pits memory and its recovery in art against the encroachments of commerce and technology.What shall restorecedar and sycamore, sweet springs,the secrets of the forest floor, where nowbackhoes and scaffoldingsand gray computers set us freeto manufacture loves and lifeless thingsalong the steely groves where no birdsings?Unmistakably a lyric poet, Randall varies traditional forms in a way that is both reminiscent and original. Her musicality often surprises us into the recognition that poems can still sound like poems. In writing about place, memory, aging, and loss, Julia Randall displays a wide-ranging intelligence, a keen eye, and a necessary anger, as well as joy, humor, and acceptance.

About the Author

Julia Randall is the author of The Puritan Carpenter, Adam's Dream, The Farewells, and other books.