A Breathable Light - Couverture souple

Torreson, Rodney

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 193097423X ISBN 13 : 9781930974234

Editeur : Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2002

Synopsis

At the beginning of Rodney Torreson's fascinating second book, everything is in its place--ordinary, time-honored, known. Then, quite without warning, the familiar becomes new, alien, strangely awful or strangely dazzling. In a landscape of ditch, fence, branch, stone, and weed, it seems all living creatures are in league with the dry wind and the icebound ruts--deer, pig, horse, cow, even the innocent, suckling lamb. In subversive ways, A Breathable Light takes the human figure out of his seat in the foreground, strips him of all privileges and asks him to understand himself as nature understands him. . . Thus, as an old gate-post settles into mud, the farmer sees his own quietly abandoned ambition; night falls and a tractor starts up of its own accord; the family dog has wool scraps in its teeth; a saddle slips and the upended rider finds himself galloping in air, "head striking the / grassy sky until [he sees] stars . . ." This is the truth about nature and human nature, and in forty-four beautifully uncluttered poems Torreson shows us the world as it's always been--a realm of unrelenting wonder.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

RODNEY TORRESON, after growing up in Iowa, moved with his wife Paulette to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches at Immanuel-St. James Lutheran School. In addition to A Breathable Light, he is the author of The Ripening of Pinstripes: Called Shots on the New York Yankees, published by Story Line Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 193097423X
• ISBN 13: 9781930974234
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 56
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• Personne responsable: non disponible