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Metes and Bounds
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639804146
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 7 2023
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Jane Blanchard's lovely, bittersweet poems, in her latest collection, meditate on the mystery of pleasure and pain and their everyday side-by-side existence. As noted in Camellias, buds / . . . bloom one day and fall the next. In The Kahler Grand Hotel, a Southern accent in a restaurant near the Mayo Clinic makes for a gently humorous glitch in the ordering process; this, against a possibly quite-threatening medical backdrop. And in the brief sub rosa, in the midst of blood tests and bone scans, the mind remains / the marriage thrives / the memory of love survives. There is technical mastery here and a good deal of music. And meaning, too, implied by the metes and bounds of the book's title: the sorrows of the world are not without limits known to faith. You trust, as another poem says, that God can sort all of it out.
-Charles Hughes, author of Cave Art and The Evening Sky
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