In this collection Jane Gentry evokes, in images as haunting as the
Kentucky landscape, a garden thriving with the flowers of memory, a
physical world that reflects a realm of transcendence. In this
garden, cosmic harmony reveals itself in the ""ciphers"" of roots
and worms, in a piece of blue willow china, ""a blaze of balance,
of wholeness"", that survives a fire in which a lonely, tormented
neighbor died. The white sheets crack in the wind, fat bellies of
sails sweet as round stomachs of children. Stark, lovely, elegiac,
gently surreal, Gentry's poems resonate and echo in the vast spaces
of the heart; long after being read, lines return, lines like those
of the lovely ""In the Moment of My Death (For My Father)"" that
beg to be memorized: In the moment of my death may your old
happiness light my way; and the image of your face smiling, happy
at my coming, be a lantern in the dark. The taste of desire, the
pang of remembered loss, the sorrow of leaving a house, Jane Gentry
has found a way to make these things new. A Garden in Kentucky is a
place of mystery, terror, beauty, and wonder, a garden to which
readers will find themselves retuning again and again.
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