Heron Cliff

ISBN: 9781897109175

出版社: Signature Editions

页数: 95

定价: $ 14.63

装帧: Pap

内容简介

In "Heron Cliff ," Margo Button, like all of us, is uprooted by the unique travils of an individual life. From the title poem about the giving up of a beloved home where a son had taken his own life, to poems about her own childhood and interconnectedness to the ever-lengthening branches of the family tree from grandparents to grandchildren, to poems about the larger upheavals and passions of the world--the lingering effects of the Great Depression, Europe during the Cold War, Guatemala and Beirut in the 1970s, and 9/11--to "Blue Dahlias," which, in its fifty-nine wide-ranging and unpredictable, yet coherent and focussed, ghazal-like sections, evokes in ecstatic detail the new home, gardens, and ideas where she has come to settle, Button articulates a vision of life where the darkest grief has a place alongside the most profound joy. In "Heron Cliff ," the heart moves house and finds a home once more in the world. For both the consummate skill of the writing and the depth of passion expressed, Margo Button's fourth book of poetry is a remarkable achievement.