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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Familiar at First, Then Strange

Familiar at First, Then Strange

Holmes, Meredith

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 0971974160
ISBN13: 9780971974166
Publisher: Pond Road Press
Published: Jul 15 2015
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Familiar at First, Then Strange, Meredith Holmes' first full-length book, introduces readers to a voice in which intellect and image vie for position, a voice of constant surprises, of startling honesty and intensity. The voice is rooted in nature, in the vaulted bones of trees. I was fostered by an American Sycamore, she tells us. She body surfs a blue biography of Luther Burbank, as locusts harmonize in the tulip trees. We learn of a double life: the tone and timbre / of everything flowed through me. Holmes pulls the quotidian down to the mysteries that silence holds. Ancestered by New England, nurtured by a small town in the East, the poet found herself in a city soaked in immigrant grief. There, in Cleveland, she forged poems into an American voice of scope and originality. And, it must be said, of great beauty.

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