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Every Note, a Lantern

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Product Code: 9781639805419
ISBN13: 9781639805419
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These are quiet, observant poems-explorations of doubt, promise, worry, grief, and unexpected hope that arrives in ordinary things-the whiskers of a little wolf, the blur of a ruby-throated hummingbird, a chorus of frogs, the feathered antennae of a giant leopard moth. Praise for these gentle poems that find beauty in the brokenness, find prayer in the bird bath, and find shelter in the weeping cherry tree. -Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of All the Honey and host of The Poetic Path Mary Katherine Creel's poems emanate the kind of quiet wisdom and close attention most poets can only dream about. Every note here is indeed a lantern, and when read aloud, the poems become "tiny embers lighting this ancient cave, the body." The precision with which she brings the world to life turns this striking collection into a field guide for being human, for holding life in both grief and helpless wonder. Here, you will find the living things that keep us company on the Earth-fiddler crabs, chipping sparrows, milkweed, and bees-reminding us that to name the world is to feel more at home in it, to find its boundless sources of solace and light. -James Crews, editor of The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace & Renewal Every Note, A Lantern is lit with resonant imagery. In these highly crafted and gorgeous poems, which are full of movement and natural wonder, Creel invites us to see how nature is the perfect place to confront our grief, and also find promise and hope. We "marvel at / the elegance of swifts / as they drop, one by one, / into the mouth of / a stone tower." We find promise in the resilience of the wintering kinglets, the Carolina wren, the nighthawks as they "make chase / in the dim half-light." And in looking outward we are also examining the human interior, intimate and complex as the dark center of a sunflower. Wow-there is beauty everywhere that you look in this book! -Christopher Salerno, author of The Man Grave


Author: Mary Katherine Creel
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Publication Date: Apr 20, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1639805419
ISBN-13: 9781639805419

Every Note, a Lantern

$19.02
 
These are quiet, observant poems-explorations of doubt, promise, worry, grief, and unexpected hope that arrives in ordinary things-the whiskers of a little wolf, the blur of a ruby-throated hummingbird, a chorus of frogs, the feathered antennae of a giant leopard moth. Praise for these gentle poems that find beauty in the brokenness, find prayer in the bird bath, and find shelter in the weeping cherry tree. -Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of All the Honey and host of The Poetic Path Mary Katherine Creel's poems emanate the kind of quiet wisdom and close attention most poets can only dream about. Every note here is indeed a lantern, and when read aloud, the poems become "tiny embers lighting this ancient cave, the body." The precision with which she brings the world to life turns this striking collection into a field guide for being human, for holding life in both grief and helpless wonder. Here, you will find the living things that keep us company on the Earth-fiddler crabs, chipping sparrows, milkweed, and bees-reminding us that to name the world is to feel more at home in it, to find its boundless sources of solace and light. -James Crews, editor of The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace & Renewal Every Note, A Lantern is lit with resonant imagery. In these highly crafted and gorgeous poems, which are full of movement and natural wonder, Creel invites us to see how nature is the perfect place to confront our grief, and also find promise and hope. We "marvel at / the elegance of swifts / as they drop, one by one, / into the mouth of / a stone tower." We find promise in the resilience of the wintering kinglets, the Carolina wren, the nighthawks as they "make chase / in the dim half-light." And in looking outward we are also examining the human interior, intimate and complex as the dark center of a sunflower. Wow-there is beauty everywhere that you look in this book! -Christopher Salerno, author of The Man Grave


Author: Mary Katherine Creel
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Publication Date: Apr 20, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1639805419
ISBN-13: 9781639805419
 

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