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Earth's crude gravities / Patrick Friesen.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.F77 E27 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friesen, Patrick, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 102 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub., 2007.
- Summary:
- Part spiritual autobiography and part distilled observation, these poems address the reader with rare simplicity and openness, creating a profound sense of common ground between writer and reader: our being "at home in need."
- Patrick Friesen's lyric sense is both natural and sophisticated; as you read him, music rises from the page, shaped by an ear attuned to the full range of sound, human and divine. And yet as intensely musical as these poems may be, they are imbued, as well, with the spirit of the painter Paul Cezanne, with all his doubts about the discipline to which he was devoted, his courage and persistence in continuing to paint. The lines "sitting in a red chair with a paring knife/ as if about to peel an apple/ a living blade a knife/ that loves one's flesh" conjure up for me both a painting by, and the very image of, Cezanne.
- Contents:
- Tourist Hotel
- Animal cries 13
- Quartet in July 14
- A boy watching his young mother 16
- J & a lunch 17
- African violets and geraniums 20
- Fall (the revelations) 24
- I could have remained a worker 25
- Waking 27
- Twice 28
- Wind 30
- It's all love 32
- Five nights of rain 35
- God 37
- So many gods 39
- Going to church (a last time) 41
- Is there a knife? 42
- The unknown child 43
- What the guitar still holds 44
- Vanity of the road 45
- Jesus walking to work 47
- Intersection
- Nothing but what's there 51
- Limoncino di monterosso 54
- Stone forgets and lasts 56
- Cold with stars 60
- A voice any voice disappears 62
- Fifty-nine years or more 65
- Thirty birds 66
- Not asleep but remembering 67
- Gethsemane 68
- Intersection 69
- Still as nothing 70
- Snagged 71
- Im spiegel 72
- Summer dream 73
- A history of the body 75
- Seasickness 76
- Mockingbird 77
- All falls to earth
- All falls to earth 81
- When I'm weary I count my blessings 83
- The crying 84
- Body of my death 86
- Simone 87
- Tsvetaeva 88
- Bodies 89
- I admire the priests 90
- Horse 92
- It can be let go 93
- All souls' eve 94
- Back porch 95
- Columbine 96
- The rain I can't speak 97
- A horse in the apartment 98
- Balance 99
- Water bowl 100
- Listen to the rain, fool 101.
- ISBN:
- 1550173995
- 9781550173994
- OCLC:
- 78042643
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