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    612-822-4611

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American Lotus

American Lotus

Casey, Kevin

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 194178349X
ISBN13: 9781941783498
Publisher: Glass Lyre Press
Published: Jul 31 2018
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The wonderfully observational poems in Kevin Casey's American Lotus remind us how separate we are from the natural world, how we sometimes suffer because of that estrangement, and offer us a way to bridge that divide. With a radical sympathy, poems like Red Maple (Acer rubrum) suggest that like this tree felled weeks ago, plunging with a sigh/ as the earth rushed up to receive it we too have been trimmed from this life. Once inside the rooms of these poems, deep images, sly rhythms and musicality reward close reading as in Hancock Point, Early Autumn where Autumn is a bleached whelk chrysalis, / a mermaid's purse of brine and bone. And yet, the ripe and heavy game bags at our backs in Partridge Hunting will likely break your heart.

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