Book description
A collection of author's poetry includes all of her published work as well as forty new multifaceted poems, in an anthology that explores such themes as divinity, achieving serenity, and more.
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An abundance of gorgeous images and philosophical insights!
Who else would write “The sparrow gleans and prims among the icy / weeds, hardly noticing, as if she knew / she were not merely herself, not pulse, / not marrow, not throbbing, but an eternal / equation of motion relative to belief”?
Pattiann Rogers always astounds me with her specific, concrete images and knowledge of science, as well as the philosophical insights that seem to spring organically from the poem itself.
I began following Rogers when her first book, The Expectations of Light, came out in 1982. I felt so…
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