Weight of Light - Softcover

Lemons, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597090476 ISBN 13: 9781597090476

Verlag: Red Hen Press, 2017

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Finalist for the 2026 American Legacy Award

Gary Lemons’s The Weight of Light breaks down the wall between poet and reader and invites us to meditate with him on all things beautiful and ugly, in a way that makes us proud to be a part of the world. Lemons explores human and nonhuman relationships, dissecting them just enough to give us a glimpse before sealing them back up and tucking them into the pages. He shows us the painful, the heartbreaking, the fearful—but pairs them with the magnificent and the joyful in such a way that we are relieved and elated to have them all. “The hunger in everything wants out,” he tells us, and this collection contains the hunger to truly know the world. “It’s here—and so am I—and so are you” and we are delighted and humbled to be here with him.

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Gary Lemons studied for two years at the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop at the University of Iowa with Marvin Bell, Donald Justice, and Norman Dubie. He received the gift of time spent with John Berryman. He studied the craft of poetry, then went out to learn the lessons of poetry. He is the author several books of poetry, among them the Snake Quartet series, and most recently, the poetry coloring book Dia de los Muertos. Currently he and his wife, the artist Nöle Giulini, teach yoga from their studio, Tenderpaws in Port Townsend, WA.

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A child in the forest sits
Atop a downed nurse log
For comfort as well as to
Balance the paper upon
Which she paints a sky
Empty of anything but the washed
Blue of her father’s eyes
When he drank enough wine
To shout at dinner.

At first the quiet trees
Manage to absorb―like carbon
Dioxide―the toxic residue
Of childhood dreams but after a while she
Paints a big sun in the middle
Of the washed-out blue sky.

Later at home she trembles
In bed afraid that in her painting
The sun is going down.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Red Hen Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1597090476
• ISBN 13: 9781597090476
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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