Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
282 “that the rock might see” News of the North from John Haines Al Vero Lettore. With this dedication “To the True Reader,” Joh ...
NEWS OF THE NORTH FROM JOHN HAINES 283 For his heartland habitat the poet finds a steady tempo and tone: The land gave up its me ...
284 PART THREE Simplicity, here, embraces mystery. You can see that happen in his own black- and-white photos for News from the ...
NEWS OF THE NORTH FROM JOHN HAINES 285 “I have often felt that we write at our best... out of an ancient and durable sense of ou ...
286 PART THREE believing the great, dark moose would come, his eyes on fire with the moon. He fell asleep, the moose “came roari ...
NEWS OF THE NORTH FROM JOHN HAINES 287 come out to eat the food. At sunrise the diviner will return, and by noting where the tra ...
288 PART THREE is broken” (shades of Black Elk after Wounded Knee: “the nation’s hoop is broken”). This poem’s simple question s ...
NEWS OF THE NORTH FROM JOHN HAINES 289 Over the lake water comes this light that has not changed, the air we have always known.. ...
290 “asking for my human breath” Trust in Maxine Kumin am writing in my journal in the black- ness of the barn while waiting for ...
TRUST IN MAXINE KUMIN 291 But that ’s just the point: “you can console yourself with the thought that come May, come June, you’r ...
292 PART THREE terrible. He paweth in the valley... and he smelleth the battle afar off.” For her and the Bible both, a poet ’s ...
TRUST IN MAXINE KUMIN 293 my quartered cuts bark down, open yellow-face up. Instead of fluency, as in “It ’s muslin overhead,” s ...
294 he Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons, by A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), begin, A day without rain is like a day without sunshine ...
WIND IN THE REEDS IN THE VOICE OF A. R. AMMONS 295 Enough I thought the woods afire or some house behind the trees but it was th ...
296 PART THREE Well, now he knows how, writing a poem, though it was “a time of tremendous economic and spiritual deprivation, e ...
WIND IN THE REEDS IN THE VOICE OF A. R. AMMONS 297 ing and dissolving, “the yielding resistances / of wind and water.” That reed ...
298 PART THREE Hopkins found constantly splaying up streamwater. Words are not things, yet “things are slowed motion,” says Ammo ...
WIND IN THE REEDS IN THE VOICE OF A. R. AMMONS 299 tranquility: the birds are lively with voice: He ’s come from his home in Ith ...
300 PART THREE ing,” part homage to Stevens, stays more personal and self-questioning. Both poets thrive along the bind between ...
301 “between the earth and silence” W. S. Merwin’s Motion of Mind is words convey a sense that he is not standing outside the wo ...
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