By cold water : poems / by Chris Dombrowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dombrowski, Chris, 1976-

Series:

Made in Michigan writers series.

Made in Michigan writers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (74 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A beautiful and meditative collection of poetry rooted in a wonder and deep knowledge of the natural world. New from renowned Michigan-born poet Chris Dombrowski, By Cold Water is a well-crafted and confident collection of poems that journeys into a complex natural world that is both beautiful and threatened. In a measured and contemplative voice, these poems engage in an earthy and eloquent exploration of the landscape-including the lakes, rivers, moonlight, breezes, and birdsong-of Dombrowski's native Michigan and his current home of Montana. Always maintaining a sense of wonder at the world around him, Dombrowski uses these natural inspirations to produce a stunning range of meditations on modern life. Whether carefully observing the present moment or trying to make meaning out of the past, Dombrowski's lines showcase the struggle of giving oneself completely over to the experience. In a similar manner, his concise, powerful lines are all-consuming and honed to an exact sharpness, bursting with tactile, aural, and visual images. Though Dombrowski's work is rooted in nature, it is in no way limited by this focus. When he describes a star-filled sky, a sheet snapping in the breeze, or the season's first snow, Dombrowski draws readers completely into his world, to see how he has lived, loved, and survived in this particular place. In doing so, he skillfully reveals universal themes of growth and decay, uncertainty and faith, and love and loss, amid a landscape that is always evolving and fundamentally unstable. Dombrowski's voice is both inviting and sophisticated, its precision reminiscent of the best poets who have drawn inspiration from the natural world. All readers of poetry will be drawn to the rich and beautiful poems in By Cold Water.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

To Carry Water

Get Up, John

Bullethole

Fragments with Dusk in Them

October Suite

Poem Beginning and Ending with Haiku

Boreal

Midst

Some Nights the River

Epithalamium

Rex's Georgic: Hunting Morels in Last Year's Burn

Direction

Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter

Heron Rookery Aubade

Woodkate, Hackmatack

Motherless Children (Traditional)

Self-Portrait as Dandelion Head Discovered in the Crop of a Partridge

Aftersketch for "Self-Portrait as Dandelion Head Discovered in the Crop of a Partridge"

Van Gogh's Palette

A History of Barbed Wire.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780814335345

0814335349

OCLC:

757515392