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What I Ask
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639805747
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: May 29 2024
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In her newest collection, What I Ask, Marjorie Moorhead speaks to us of all she holds truly precious. With subtle turns of language, her heartfelt poems span the full emotional terrain of nostalgia, joy, loss, and wonder. She speaks with honesty and humor, sometimes coming from unlikely places. Birds, for example, play a significant role. If I were feather-coated, what would the pattern be? Trees, too, feature large. Moorhead's poems are generous yet unsentimental, quiet yet resonant, grounded in the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself. Moorhead is a poet to cherish and applaud. This is a collection to treasure.
-Ina Anderson
In What I Ask, Marjorie Moorhead exhorts all of us who walk the earth as tenants to abandon our destructive ways, all the way down to the micro plastic trash we make, and revere the many blessings of the natural world. Her poems are simultaneously gentle and urgent, ultimately resolving in reminders to remember what it means to be human at the edge of time. Moorhead sees the natural world fully with tenderness, intention, and loving attention as she points out that, through stewardship, we have the capacity to undo the damage we've done. What I Ask inspires us to get to it.
-Michael Kleber-Diggs
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