In Light of Stars
Autor Bruce Willarden Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781945588945
ISBN-10: 1945588942
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: FOUR WAY BOOKS
Colecția Four Way Books
ISBN-10: 1945588942
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: FOUR WAY BOOKS
Colecția Four Way Books
Recenzii
“In Light of Stars presents a poetry that engages the larger questions of our place on earth, a poetry that lifts us beyond personal loss to moments cherished and made brilliant by close attention to and appreciation of the natural world. Bruce Willard’s lyric voice, craft, and imagination are authentic and inspired. When he asks, ‘How do you decide / to do anything one last time’ I am compelled to think of us all standing here, looking up for the time we have. . . .”
—Christopher Buckley
“Hovering inside of this book is the paradox of solitude: we yearn for it, we are pained by it. And when someone we love dies, these beautiful poems attest, nothing is ever perfectly quiet again. In Light of Stars is as earthward as it is skyward, and Bruce Willard’s imagination is at once corporeal and hauntingly spiritual. You can hear the living and the dead breathe in this book, which is to say: it gives me hope.”
—Katie Ford
“There’s a fine sensibility at work in these poems, irreverent and American. I admire their clear language, their fine wit and feeling for the male self coming to terms with the world. I like the way they float back and forth between tenderness and irony.”
—Joseph Millar
“In his new book, In Light of Stars, Bruce Willard manages to be spare and expansive at once. This remarkable achievement comes partly from the sense of loss that hovers over the book, but also from the care and restraint of its language, often parceled out in quietly emphatic short lines that enact the way Willard listens closely to the world before speaking himself. You can feel the poems, in the act of reading them, expand in scope and mystery, opening out into the white space around them as though into the ‘bold, kind polar night,’ so that the book as a whole ‘returns us to a place we need to know.’”
—Jeffrey Harrison
—Christopher Buckley
“Hovering inside of this book is the paradox of solitude: we yearn for it, we are pained by it. And when someone we love dies, these beautiful poems attest, nothing is ever perfectly quiet again. In Light of Stars is as earthward as it is skyward, and Bruce Willard’s imagination is at once corporeal and hauntingly spiritual. You can hear the living and the dead breathe in this book, which is to say: it gives me hope.”
—Katie Ford
“There’s a fine sensibility at work in these poems, irreverent and American. I admire their clear language, their fine wit and feeling for the male self coming to terms with the world. I like the way they float back and forth between tenderness and irony.”
—Joseph Millar
“In his new book, In Light of Stars, Bruce Willard manages to be spare and expansive at once. This remarkable achievement comes partly from the sense of loss that hovers over the book, but also from the care and restraint of its language, often parceled out in quietly emphatic short lines that enact the way Willard listens closely to the world before speaking himself. You can feel the poems, in the act of reading them, expand in scope and mystery, opening out into the white space around them as though into the ‘bold, kind polar night,’ so that the book as a whole ‘returns us to a place we need to know.’”
—Jeffrey Harrison
Notă biografică
Bruce Willard’s poems have appeared in 5 A.M., Alaska Quarterly, AGNI, Cortland Review, Harvard Review, NPR’s Writer’s Almanac, Poet Lore, Ploughshares, Salamander, and other publications. His first collection, Holding Ground, was published by Four Way Books in 2013. Violent Blues, his second book, was published by Four Way Books in 2016. Willard lives in Colorado and Maine. More information is available on the website www.brucewillard.com.
Extras
Dry
The sycamore leaves leathery,
flannelled one side,
a congregation of hands
across the lawn,
palms skyward,
waiting for rain.
The ground
is gunpowder;
anything
will set it off.
The Chinese say every storm
brings prosperity.
Six Septembers
our eyes have been dry,
red-lined, patient.
What becomes us
when the rains arrive?
The sycamore leaves leathery,
flannelled one side,
a congregation of hands
across the lawn,
palms skyward,
waiting for rain.
The ground
is gunpowder;
anything
will set it off.
The Chinese say every storm
brings prosperity.
Six Septembers
our eyes have been dry,
red-lined, patient.
What becomes us
when the rains arrive?