A LIFE ABOVE WATER (Paperback, New)

A Life Above Water is a cycle of poems that examines both the natural and human worlds and explores the boundaries between the two. The manuscript is concerned with personal ecologies and mythologies the ways that things are interconnected and the stories that we create to explain those connections. The manuscript is arranged in three concentric sections, each subsequent division nesting within the previous one. The reader is drawn into the broad, inclusive view of All These Indigestible Parts with its focus on the animals of the forest and birds of the air, the apparent cruelty of the natural world and that which is human about the animal through Fellowship and Baked Goods which looks at peopled communities and the ways we interact with one another, to the tighter, more personal focus of The Great Slowing and its themes of loss, shortcoming and redemption. The poems are individually free-standing and complete, but taken as a whole form a broad yet detailed portrait of the world around us and our place within it. By turns analytical, scientific, lyrical, whimsical and spiritual, A Life Above Water is a book that fits neatly into the canon of contemporary poetry while offering a unique, fresh and accessible perspective.

General

Imprint:	Red Hen Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2007
First published:	March 2007
Authors:	Doug Van Gundy
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-59709-431-3
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-59709-431-5
Barcode:	9781597094313

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