The View of the River - Couverture souple

Swist, Wally

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1945752955 ISBN 13 : 9781945752957

Editeur : Kelsay Books, 2017

Synopsis

“Wally Swist is a poet of the transcendent. What appears in his lines is incandescent, and always between and within those lines, divinity is implicit—sometimes human, sometimes creaturely—as in ‘Green Herons,’ where one brilliant Green mingles ‘with all of its brethren // whom we did not see but who were ardently / peering at us through their veil of viridescence.’ ”

—Rennie McQuilkin, State of Connecticut Poet Laureate

Elegiac, with a naturalist's keen eye and a confessionalist's memory garden of interior life, Wally Swist takes us diving into loss, hatred, heartache, the unforgiving leather of a father's belt, and the crucified olive trees of Shuyukh. We can't help coming away saddened, and yet transformed—making soup, singing in the rain, uncovering a festival of buttercups.

—Art Goodtimes, author of As if the World Really Mattered: Poems (La Alameda Press/University of New Mexico)

The View of the River is a distinguished gathering of lyrical narrative poems in which the poet is both a participant and an observer—at the center and on the periphery—of a world shaped by beauty and by sorrow, held forever at the intersections of place and memory. These are epiphanic poems, presenting the rhythms of life in each small detail, in each small step across landscapes real and imagined and remembered, kinships of the heart peering through veils of the present and often of a painful and wistful past. They do so in cadences brilliantly managed from beginning to end that affirm Swist’s mastery of poetic phrase and a technical elegance that reveals the luminous power of language. But more than that, these poems sing ultimately as testaments to love and redemption possible for the self and for the world. Deeply observant and deeply alive, they confirm Swist as an essential American voice.

—Jonas Zdanys, author of Red Stones and St. Brigid’s Well

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wally Swist’s books include Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012); The Daodejing: A New Interpretation, with David Breeden and Steven Schroeder (Lamar University Literary Press, 2015); and Invocation (Lamar University Literary Press, 2015). His poems have appeared in many publications, including Appalachia, Commonweal, Miramar, North American Review, Rattle, Sunken Garden Poetry, 1992-2011 (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), and upstreet. Garrison Keillor has read his work on the national radio program The Writer’s Almanac. Swist makes his home in South Amherst, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kelsay Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1945752955
• ISBN 13: 9781945752957
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
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