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ISBN13: 9781639804290
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Sep 20 2023
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-William Hathaway, author of Dawn Chorus, The Right No, Sightseer, Promeneur Solitaire, Churlsgrace, Looking into the Heart of Light, The Gymnast of Inertia, A Wilderness of Monkeys and Fish, Flesh, & Fowl
Charlie Weld's poems capture the best of Thoreau's journal-the steady, meditative observation of the natural world until facts burst into insight, wisdom, and music. Weld uses language from Thoreau's journals and letters, as well as words from other naturalists, the way a birdwatcher uses optics: to sharpen and discipline the eye, to better see what's there, to observe reality / without all the particulars being blurred. He uses verse-a loose sonnet form that snaps into rhyme the way binoculars lock onto a tuft of feathers in the canopy-to illuminate those moments when chronology's scaffold falls away, and long study, deeply personal memory, and meticulous observation merge into one. These poems pull you in and take your breath away.
-John J. Kucich, editor of Rediscovering the Maine Woods: Thoreau's Legacy in an Unsettled Land and author of Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
If you want to engage with Henry Thoreau, reading his books and essays is the first thing to do. Then a biography or two. But another excellent way is to read Charles Weld's sonnets. Did you know that the odds of dying of TB in Concord in Thoreau's day were one in seven-which are the same odds for acorn potency, something that Thoreau calculated? After reading Weld's poems you will know many things you didn't before-about nature, about 19th-century life, and about how to live-Thoreau's great question, and Weld's as well. With Weld you also get the pleasure of his distinctive skill with the sonnet. Solid, well-made, these poems have flavor, intelligence, wisdom. By all means read them aloud.
-Howard Nelson, author of That Was Really Something, All the Earthly Lovers, The Nap by the Waterfall, Bone Music, Singing into the Belly, and Creatures
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