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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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False Spring: Poems

False Spring: Poems

Monaghan, Gloria

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1950437078
ISBN13: 9781950437078
Publisher: Adelaide Books
Published: Mar 18 2019
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Following in the footprints of Amy Clampitt and Robert Creeley - two of our greatest contemporary naturalist poets - Gloria Monaghan offers this exquisite collection. But, like all other prints left on a nature trail, her footprints are distinctly her own - whether tender, rhapsodic, wistful or sardonic. This trail begins in a cemetery where flowers are left to flourish in the water of tears. It then moves naturally to memories of the poet's father, siblings, a former love, and her children. In all of these poems - and in the others offered here - the words stun in their Dickinsonian simplicity and beauty. The smell of my daughter's hair breaks my heart.Even when she is describing a grim crime scene (The police search the reeds and the water ... in the hope of finding a body), she returns and finds/offers solace in the natural world (Did your body smell like an ocean?).As befits good poetry, each poem here jars, prods, provokes, disturbs - even in a love poem - often with a sly sense of humor (Your smell escapes me) or bitter regret (The daylight / never ceases to astonish / ... as if that's all we need).The richly textured images leave the reader glad to have taken the trek. It is a journey to which the lucky reader will return time and again, each time discovering new growth. - Neil Silberblatt, Founder/Director, Voices of Poetry; Author, Past Imperfect (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), nominated for Mass. Book Award in Poetry

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