A Gathered Distance: Poems Contributor(s): Tredinnick, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0995371849 ISBN-13: 9780995371842 Publisher: Birdfish Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: February 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Poetry - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.5" W x 6.5" L (0.34 lbs) 140 pages |
Features: Illustrated |
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Publisher Description: A Gathered Distance is a sustained and elegant lyric offering, weaving themes of loss and grief with transformation and beauty, which Chris Wallace-Crabbe describes as "a most subtle orchestration of loss". The collection speaks to our shared experiences of connection and separation; the complex dynamics of family and parenthood. In a time of ecological crisis, Mark's work affirms the value of "lyric resistance", poetry's mysterious way of making sense of things: "When profound human emotion can recruit the lyric, the personal can become the human, the particular the archetypal. And a collapse of self can become a gathering of distances, a habitat of healing." - Mark Tredinnick. From the title poem: "...Be a garden in a city, And be all the love you've lost. From all the unpropitious Pieces tending toward a self, cultivate a solitude, harvest half
A life and make it whole. Gather all your distances, and father all your orphan fears; hold them Near, as a father might..." |
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