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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Threshold We Carry

A Threshold We Carry

Trelstad, Nick

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639802045
ISBN13: 9781639802043
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 20 2022
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I said your name but I meant
how snow becomes
the downward drift
of light, flake
after flake, upon the Earth
they buried you in.
I Said Your Name


The downward drift/of light in this moving elegy is emblematic of the dynamic attention to detail and metaphor throughout Nick Trelstad's A Threshold We Carry. In poems filled with images of the north woods, bears and deer come out of the wild, if only briefly, to approach a city's tumor of light (Bear.) They return to a border only wild things can cross (Doe.) A Threshold We Carry draws us into that liminal space where poems are generated, a wilderness Trelstad loves. We are lucky that he shares it with us. This is an accomplished collection in which even an orange, with haiku-like clarity, takes part in a wider existence:

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