Holy Heathen Rhapsody

Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry An award-winning poet who “writes transporting poems of discovery, contemplation, and gratitude” ( Booklist ) Pattiann Rogers has won acclaim as one of the most original voices in contemporary American poetry. The poems in her new collection, Holy Heathen Rhapsody , embrace and embody the forces of the Earth and the creative power of its lifeforms in all the wildness of their varieties. Love in these poems is a force infused with the same creative power and intensity, the purest manifestation of the will-to-be. This vision and its making contend that even a shadow or a floating seed, a frond of green or a midnight spider, even a mongrel dog, wind over water, the human voice, the human witness, peace and weapons, all--every aspect and feature encountered--are fully endowed players in the dynamic music of the Earth.

Product details

• Authors: Pattiann Rogers, Rogers Pattiann
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2013
• EAN: 9780143123880
• ISBN: 978-0-14-312388-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Penguin Poets; Penguin Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, POETRY / General, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, United States of America, USA, Poetry / poems by individual poets, Poetry / Poems