Monaghan, G: False Spring

Monaghan, Gloria

ISBN 10: 1950437078 / ISBN 13: 9781950437078

Published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US, 2019

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Neuware - Following in the footprints of Amy Clampitt and Robert Creeley - two of our greatest contemporary naturalist poets - Gloria Monaghan offers this exquisite collection. But, like all other prints left on a nature trail, her footprints are distinctly her own - whether tender, rhapsodic, wistful or sardonic. This trail begins in a cemetery where flowers are left to flourish in the water of tears. It then moves naturally to memories of the poet's father, siblings, a former love, and her children. In all of these poems - and in the others offered here - the words stun in their Dickinsonian simplicity and beauty. 'The smell of my daughter's hair breaks my heart.'Even when she is describing a grim crime scene ('The police search the reeds and the water . in the hope of finding a body'), she returns and finds/offers solace in the natural world ('Did your body smell like an ocean ').As befits good poetry, each poem here jars, prods, provokes, disturbs - even in a love poem - often with a sly sense of humor ('Your smell escapes me') or bitter regret ('The daylight / never ceases to astonish / . as if that's all we need').The richly textured images leave the reader glad to have taken the trek. It is a journey to which the lucky reader will return time and again, each time discovering new growth. - Neil Silberblatt, Founder/Director, Voices of Poetry; Author, Past Imperfect (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), nominated for Mass. Book Award in Poetry.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Monaghan, G: False Spring
• Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1950437078
• ISBN 13: 9781950437078
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 5D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
• Weight: 122 grams

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Following in the footprints of Amy Clampitt and Robert Creeley - two of our greatest contemporary naturalist poets - Gloria Monaghan offers this exquisite collection. But, like all other prints left on a nature trail, her footprints are distinctly her own - whether tender, rhapsodic, wistful or sardonic. This trail begins in a cemetery where flowers are left to flourish in the water of tears. It then moves naturally to memories of the poet's father, siblings, a former love, and her children. In all of these poems - and in the others offered here - the words stun in their Dickinsonian simplicity and beauty. "The smell of my daughter's hair breaks my heart".Even when she is describing a grim crime scene ("The police search the reeds and the water … in the hope of finding a body"), she returns and finds/offers solace in the natural world ("Did your body smell like an ocean?").As befits good poetry, each poem here jars, prods, provokes, disturbs - even in a love poem - often with a sly sense of humor ("Your smell escapes me") or bitter regret ("The daylight / never ceases to astonish / … as if that's all we need").The richly textured images leave the reader glad to have taken the trek. It is a journey to which the lucky reader will return time and again, each time discovering new growth. — Neil Silberblatt, Founder/Director, Voices of Poetry; Author, Past Imperfect (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), nominated for Mass. Book Award in Poetry