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Memorizing the Wind

Memorizing the Wind

Paperback

General NatureGeneral ParentingGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1947896881
ISBN13: 9781947896888
Publisher: Terrapin Books
Published: Apr 10 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Odes, nocturnes, aubades-if Keats were still here, he'd want to have a conversation and a glass of claret with Deirdre O'Connor. These are gorgeous poems but not pretty poems. There's a fidelity to the often messy world, a fidelity to the messy truth that gives this book a rare, clear strength gracefully, even delicately applied. From the first lines What wind is this, / turning the pear tree's blossoms/ to loose-leaf snow?/ What wind, pushing/ the semen scent through town, we see that this will be an unusual collection, one that weds the best impulses of the Romantics with the earthy, complicated, mucky semen scented world. What holds the book together even as it raises the stakes of the poems is the gorgeous music of the language.

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