Secrets of Weather & Hope

Sinclair, Sue

ISBN 10: 1894078152 / ISBN 13: 9781894078153

Published by Brick Books (edition First Edition), 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Secrets of Weather & Hope
• Publisher: Brick Books (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1894078152
• ISBN 13: 9781894078153
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Sue Sinclair’s poems speak from that precise place where our perception of the world and our capacity for language meet and embrace, where our sense of experience goes to get sharpened and refreshed.

That experience might involve the inner lives of clouds, the flourishing and passing of a tulip, the evocative scent of wolf willow, or the intricate arts of Bach and Virginia Woolf. These poems are deft, musical, and quick in the moment, alive to the sensuous surface and the meditative depth, their antennae fully extended.

"These are the carriers.

Their large, mild bodies make us think
of domesticity, of milk. Mammalian
they hold the rain in their bellies, a generous
temperament. They too are susceptible
to time, but more graceful than us.
Unafraid, they will let go
when they must. They breathe
more deeply and know something
of sadness. Their bodies are sympathetic.
Rain is what they know best and least."

―from "Cumulus"

About the Author

Sue Sinclair has written three previous books of poetry, Secrets of Weather & Hope, Mortal Arguments, and The Drunken Lovely Bird. Her work has been nominated for awards including the Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Awards and the Atlantic Book Prize for Poetry. Secrets of Weather & Hope was a Globe 100 title.