Northerners (Paperback)

Poetry. In James Armstrong's pellucid poetry the drifting of autumn leaves shares space with the baroque architecture of nineteenth century England. A woman peruses a book of pharmaceuticals in a coffee shop looking for hints of happiness. And a naked woman wearing hip boots stares out of the 1940s in a photograph hung in a Michigan bar. Twilight is always moving the shadows of our urban lives out toward the country, our inherited past, where a deer or a heron waits like an angel glimpsed through the fog. Armstrong's poems elucidate the mystery and beauty of borders--temporal and historical, as well as geographical--while his pastoral sensibility floods our senses with images of the natural world, seemingly stopping time, edifying us, and helping us--for a few moments anyway--to transcend our enervated contemporary lives. Reading this book is like diving into a deep lake. It cleanses the soul.

General

Imprint:	Western Michigan University, New Issues Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Inland Seas
Release date:	December 1999
First published:	October 1999
Authors:	Seth Abramson
Dimensions:	218 x 154 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	72
ISBN-13:	978-0-932826-78-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-932826-78-4
Barcode:	9780932826787

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