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No Gathering In of this Incense: Poems - Couverture souple

Rhoads, Mark

 
9781498202985: No Gathering In of this Incense: Poems
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1498202985 ISBN 13 : 9781498202985
Editeur : Resource Publications, 2015

Synopsis

Memory is like incense; as the censor passes, so does the intensity of the aroma, leaving only faint wisps. The substance is ephemeral, becoming vague and imprecise with the passing of time. No gathering in of the incense of our past can reveal a precise picture or bring back the past in such a way that we can lay hold of it. It inevitably slips through our fingers. But the wisp of memory that surrounds us-like the smell of brewing coffee or a pungent perfume-has the power to delight or disgust, to influence our present and shape our future. These poems uncover scraps of an ordinary story told with as much truth and substance as the incense of memory can evoke-ordinary insofar as the struggle between discontentment and serenity, fear and confidence, gravity and humor, conflict and reconciliation, disappointment and fulfillment, sadness and joy, death and life is the natural topography of our humanity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mark Rhoads is Professor of Music at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN.

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Éditeur
Resource Publications
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1498202985
ISBN 13 
9781498202985
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
102
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Personne responsable
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