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Flight Patterns: A Poetry Collection
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639803705
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jul 21 2023
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Dr. Lucia Cherciu, Professor, English Department, SUNY/Dutchess; Poet Laureate, Dutchess County, NY 2020-2022
This beautiful, courageous, truthful book makes for delightful reading. Mary K O'Melveny's Flight Patterns begins with memories rich in the physical joy of nature. Through these contemplative, imaginative and image-filled poems, we experience the poet's love of birds and her concern for losses in our natural environment. The collection touches on age, injustice and violence; the harm wrought by Covid-19, political events here and abroad; and threats to the Earth and its inhabitants, including those birds that the poet loves so dearly, valuable because they, remind us of what we love rather than what we fear. Many of those fears are justified.
To those who find themselves oppressed and undervalued, flight is a metaphor for escape. Here, it is also a metaphor for personal growth and a call to respond now to the progressive complexity and challenges of our changing world. These poems offer meditations and fantasy, dialogues between birds and humans and a path to reversing daily losses of birdsong. Here, we can celebrate nature's ineffable, profoundly moving gifts and understand the work required to save ourselves and those who will follow us into the future. Fortunately, the poet imbues us with signs of enduring hope, supported by the persistence of living things that have survived over the millennia.
-Rhina P. Espaillat, Poet, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Translator, Teacher, Author of, most recently, And After All and The Field
Readers of this collection will be struck by how consistently imaginative Ms. O'Melveny's poetry is. Her poems are atmospheric and magical, tender and humorous, revealing and smart. She also possesses a rare and keen eye for the connection of nature to sound, wisdom, and character. Highly recommended!
-Joe Maita, Editor/Publisher, Jerry Jazz Musician
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