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"From the author of To Give it Up (Sun and Moon) which was selected by Barbara Guest for the National Poetry Series, comes Pam Rehm's Inner Verses, a book of deep gravitas that belies its slim, portable volume. Comprising lyric poems that are attentive to "the underneath mind / growing more and more / quieted," Inner Verses is a collection that understands the ways in which time is mutable and brief. Here, we experience a genuine devotion for both birdsong and breath, and the intimacies of thought connecting the two. In this way and with exacting tenderness, Pam Rehm creates poems that relish solitude and yet are generous enough to carry us as company"--
List of contents
Contents
Confirmation
Internal Disquiet
This Tender Riot of Chaos
Left Behind
The Trembling Balance
Bleak Realities
Afterglow
Giving Up Reason
The Small Gate
A Construction
“All that life evokes”
Adoration
Spiritual Life
Getting the Wolf Out
Give-and-Take
What Cannot Be
5/30/96
Hymn to Convalescence
Bowing to Forces Infinitely Greater
“I was holding on”
Acknowledgments
About the author
Pam Rehm is the author of
Time Will Show (Shearsman Books, 2018),
The Larger Nature (Flood Editions, 2011),
Small Works (Flood Editions, 2005),
Gone to Earth (Flood Editions, 2001),
To Give It Up (Sun & Moon Press, 1994), and
The Garment in which No One Had Slept (Burning Deck Press, 1993). She lives in Manhattan.
Summary
From the author of To Give it Up (Sun and Moon Press) which was selected by Barbara Guest for the National Poetry Series, comes Pam Rehm’s Inner Verses, a book of deep gravitas that belies its slim, portable volume.
Comprising lyric poems that are attentive to “the underneath mind / growing more and more / quieted,” Inner Verses is a collection that understands the ways in which time is mutable and brief. Here, we experience a genuine devotion for both birdsong and breath, and the intimacies of thought connecting the two. In this way and with exacting tenderness, Pam Rehm creates poems that relish solitude and yet are generous enough to carry us as company.
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