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Wilderness Bardo: Poems from the Backcountry
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ISBN13: 9781957483504
Publisher: Middle Creek Publishing & Audio
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This translation of the Bob Marshall Wilderness is a joyous cascade of nouns and transitions highlighting the unseen / in-between found when we stop to examine the pauses that exist in the wild. These poems are a lucky thing for all of us. Garrigan's eyes, restful yet curious, active and alive, reveal a magnificent place, and remind us to take the time to discover the transitory language of stones, bones, and wildflowers. I'm grateful for this collection.
-Andrew C. Gottlieb, author of Tales of a Distance
These poems transport us, with language as clear and lyrical as a cold trout stream, to the backcountry's forested mountains alive with bears and berries, evoking a rugged and beautiful landscape where the languages of ... heart / and body finally speak in concert. This is poetry as forest: a lush tangle of life, death, and timeless connection, a natural rejoicing that speaks through human and nonhuman voices alike to offer a true fellowship of wildness.
-Kristen Lindquist, naturalist and author of ISLANDIn this richly detailed gathering of poems, Michael Garrigan invites readers out to the backcountry where he is most at home. With him, we experience summer storms in the high country, breathtakingly cold alpine lakes, sweat-soaked midafternoon uphill hikes, and-most notably- the exquisite pleasure of sitting still, senses attuned to the fellow creatures who come to visit: the mighty elk and grizzly bear, the Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Water Ouzel, and Ruby-crowned Kinglet. An hour spent with Wilderness Bardo will hone your tools for seeing and whet your appetite for wild places.
-Rick Kempa, editor, Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry
About the Author Michael Garrigan writes and teaches along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. He is the author of three poetry collections - Ghost Hunting Glaciers (winner of the Grayson Books Poetry Prize), River, Amen (winner of the Weatherford Award for Poetry) and Robbing the Pillars. His writing has appeared in Orion, The Flyfish Journal, Talking River Review, Water Stone Review, Saranac Review, The Hopper Magazine, River Teeth, and North American Review, among others. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Spiritual Literature, and The Pushcart Prize. Michael was the Artist in Residence for The Bob Marshall Wilderness Area and believes every watershed should have a Poet Laureate. You can find more of his work at www.mgarrigan.comAlso from
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