Sign-In
Cart
Teaching a Wild Thing
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639802142
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 21 2022
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Luisa A. Igloria, author of Maps for Migrants and Ghosts; Poet Laureate of Virginia, Emerita
How I see myself in the tender ache reflections of the world blooming in these poems. McDonald's Teaching a Wild Thing is a landscape of personal grief, while being found in a heron wing, tuft of bobcat, chrysalis, crab, the space between ladybugs and petal. This collection is an almanac of heart, supplication and prayer- feeling/ for an answer somewhere/...a place/ that smells like home. With the essence of Mary Oliver and conservationist Beatrix Potter, McDonald is a mother of other kingdoms, her poems a flower that has bloomed on your tongue alone.
-Kai Coggin, author of Mining for Stardust, Incandescent, and Wingspan
Even as McDonald writes this language is impossible she articulates the abstract into the
visceral and sensual, I am holy thighs / a strawberry swelling / mint leaves floating / in peach
tea. A literacy of wildness peppers the pages: lion's mane, gills tender lamella, mountain mint and milkweed. In Teaching a Wild Thing, Kindra McDonald is as vulnerable in her experience of agony as she is in hope.
-Angela Dribben, author of Everygirl
In Teaching a Wild Thing, Kindra McDonald blurs the line between the human and natural worlds, creating a oneness that reveals we are also wild things-fraught, at the mercy of disaster, in need of comfort. These poems lay bare the darkness of loss but always search for hope and, ultimately, discover a sort of fulfillment in caring for the small everyday blooms and creatures McDonald calls us to treasure. There is much to learn here. Follow the poet's instructions for joy, and this collection will linger.
-Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones
Also from
McDonald, Kindra
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover