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North of Eden

Autor Rennie McQuilkin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2017
This is the definitive collection of poems by Rennie McQuilkin, Poet Laureate of CT and winner of the CT Book Award. His17th poetry collection and winner of the Indie Book Award for Poetry, it contains his best work from previous books, demonstrating a love of the natural world and management of the worst life can throw at us. The day after their expulsion from Eden, he writes, Adam and Eve get dressed for work and consider "what to plant / in a lesser garden." Since the living is no longer easy and love no longer blooms of its own accord, they are "learning to pay attention." And so it goes in parry after parry throughout the book. North of Eden contains over 200 poems not presented in McQuilkin's earlier collection of Selected Poems, The Weathering, which won the 2010 CT Book Award. McQuilkin's poems are both accessible and resonant, witty and lyrical. About them, Gray Jacobik has said, "Elegant and tenderhearted, replete with sound-play and radiant metaphor, such poems rank with the best of Carruth, Kunitz, Nemerov, and Warren." Richard Wilbur has praised The Weathering, for its "unostentatious brilliance of structure" and "seemingly offhand way of threading thought through its particulars." And Eamon Grennan writes that "Rennie McQuilkin offers us poems of a grainy, poised, exacting honesty. There's a Shaker furniture feel to their mix of plainness and grace. Grounded and unabashedly local, these poems are also 'at home in the sky' and 'in touch with everywhere,' providing a deep reading of a truly examined life. McQuilkin balances with elegance the practical, erotic, and mindful zones of his experience, infusing the quotidian with a sense of something nearly numinous. To risk a large formulation, which McQuilkin would likely shrug off, I'd say his is, at root, a redemptive vision, an ability to encounter tough truths, and by encountering them without flinching, to come through. Quietly vigilant, affectionate yet scrupulous, and at times humorously wry, the poems in The Weathering-in their landscapes and dreamscapes, their weathers, their swift erotic swerves, their family of loved ones, their undimmed and perpetual relish for the things of nature and the things of man-give, in form and content, language and matter, continuous pleasure."
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ISBN-13: 9781943826254
ISBN-10: 1943826250
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Antrim House

Notă biografică

Rennie McQuilkin was Poet Laureate of Connecticut from 2015 to 2018. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Yale Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. This is his 25th collection. He has received a number of awards for his work, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, six fellowships frm the CT Commission on the Arts, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Center for the Book. In 2010 his volume of new and selected poems, The Weathering, was awarded the Center's annual poetry prize under the aegis of the Library of Congress; and in 2018, North of Eden received the Next Generation Indie Book Award in Poetry. For nine years he directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, which he co-founded and directed for many years at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut. In 2018, he and his wife of sixty-two years - artist, teacher, counselor, and gardener Sarah McQuilkin - moved to the Seabury retirement community in Bloomfield, CT. Sadly, Sarah passed away in January of 2023.