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Bloodroot - Poems
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The poems in Bill King's first full-length collection, Bloodroot,
articulate a life grounded in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian
Mountains. We see memories of his youth in southwestern Virginia's
Back Creek Valley, as well as poems of adult years in (and
exploring the Monongahela Forest that surrounds) the mountain town
of Elkins, West Virginia. These poems follow the root of a life
nourished by and inseparable from garden soil, mountain rivers, and
the hearths and kitchen table of home back to its origins. ""Grown
Boy"" recalls a solitary childhood spent exploring creeks and
two-lanes. In ""Black Kite,"" a mature father's sense of home and
family take on depth and gratitude after a cancer diagnosis and
chronic illness. Poems like ""This World Should Be Enough"" look
beyond personal mortality to honor the mystery and beauty of wild
landscapes long threatened by the violence of the extraction
industry. Finally, ""To Have and To Hold"" pledges fealty to love
in all of its forms, a stance that makes the book's meditations on
mortality and acceptance, especially ""Fifty Gardens In"" as
hopeful as they are honest. By turns narrative and lyrical, these
accessible poems find metaphor in native landscapes: ""the pink and
purple riddles"" of joe pye and ironweed, a ""cicada, / like a
pressure canner thrumming on a stove,"" the red-tail hawks that
""carry the wounded skyward,"" the bloodroot ""whose petals fall
just as soon / as the flower begins to bloom."" King's poems offer
a language for how to love a world we must, ultimately, leave.
General
Imprint: |
Mercer University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2023 |
Authors: |
Bill King
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Pages: |
100 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-88146-910-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-88146-910-6 |
Barcode: |
9780881469103 |
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