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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Tribe

Tribe

Montague, Mary

Paperback

Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1904556779
ISBN13: 9781904556770
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
[T]he trained eye of the natural scientist and the impassioned soul of a poet fuse to create a poetic universe that is nothing short of miraculous. At home in the liminal spaces where revelations still occur, she approaches our fragile natural environment invariably with a sense of wonder and a detached observant love for its creatures. The precision of her sensual, superbly controlled descriptions, are breath-taking. Encounters with the 'other' world of our animal brothers and sisters display a sense of tact and empathy which is Keatsian in scope. Tribe is an elegy for a lost paradise, a Song of Songs for squirrel, fox and raven, whale, wolf and gannet, and ultimately it raises serious questions for us and generations to come-how did we squander our inheritance so mindlessly: what have we done with the garden entrusted to us? - Eva Bourke, author of The Latitude of Naples MARY MONTAGUE grew up in Co. Fermanagh and studied Genetics and Zoology at Queen's University, Belfast. She worked for many years as a teacher in Derry. Her first collection, Black Wolf on a White Plain, was published by Summer Palace Press in 2001. She is currently living and working in Lancaster.

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