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Poetry Comes Up Where It Can: An Anthology: Poems from the Amicus Journal, 1990-2000

Poetry Comes Up Where It Can: An Anthology: Poems from the Amicus Journal, 1990-2000

Swann, Brian

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ISBN10: 0874806445
ISBN13: 9780874806441
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: Feb 24 2000
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.97 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Walk with this book to find some of the unexpected places where poetry can flourish. Discover poetry growing where it can, in the infinite and in the microscopic: in the star-gazing, star-thinking, star-dreaming...Milky Way, and in minute invisible architectures...of snowflake sculpture reality; in mountain passes where gold leaves spill and spin like doubloons, and in the grizzly, hunger-hearted and ugly, a horrible beauty, / a hairy breath of berry-laced and blood-hot red, / hunter and hunted, and hated; in the city where birds...survive to sing about sun- / light straining through the gritty breath / of New York, and in wilderness that has no nakedness, that is lovely because it is empty.

The poems in this anthology first appeared in The Amicus Journal, the quarterly publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Selected by the journal's poetry editor, Brian Swann, they represent a broad array of responses to the natural world--from warning to celebration--by some of the nation's most distinguished poets. Included is work by American poets Wendell Berry, Michael Dorris, Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver, Pattiann Rogers, and William Stafford, as well as work from poets in Australia and Mexico. All grapple with issues of nature and the environment from the perspective of the final decade of the millennium.

These poems remind us that we can be dazzled both by nature and by the poetry that explores the natural world.

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