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Defending darkness / Pamela Porter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Pamela, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry. .
- Loss (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (100 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : Ronsdale Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In Defending Darkness , starting over is a constant theme as Pamela Porter explores what wisdom can be gained in "waiting on the heart to finish her grieving," and then to move on -- across borders, through time, even into eternity. These poems carry the adversity we all must endure with a kind of singing that is "older than praise, younger than light, cousin to regret, sister to fate," and finally, to declare, "We were instruments of music, every one . . . we sang for a season." With such singing, even darkness itself can be defended. Pamela Porter has been praised for her deeply redemptive poetry, often said to "evoke the poetics of Rilke." Powerful, searing, lyrical, Defending Darkness is surely a book to treasure.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- I
- To own nothing, not even our skin
- Directive for holiness
- The abandoned farm
- Like sunlight carried on the current
- Aubade
- Divining
- Endurance
- Turn and counter-turn
- Albion mine, 1918
- All they could do
- Moving horses to high country
- In from the sea
- Guatemala
- Harvest
- You said
- The first musicians were birds
- It was a kind of worship
- Woman at the piano
- II
- Lilacs
- The mind wants to know
- Mosaic
- In the before-time
- Borealis
- Woman's work
- In any language
- Sacramento canyon
- East of the Rockies
- Flying west
- Forgotten wars
- Hilda
- When morning comes
- III
- Admonition
- When the wild horse spoke
- Virga
- Wild rose
- None so prized
- September
- Bottle tree
- Umbilical
- Rain
- Silence
- Mercy
- Theology
- The roan mare
- Peace country
- IV
- Blessed is the waiting
- In ordinary time
- Defending darkness
- Defending loneliness
- Patience
- The fires
- Passage
- The way things separate
- How delicate
- How it all turned out
- How to disappear
- Maddybenny Farm
- Not a poet
- The sorrel gelding
- The stone girl
- Surviving
- Sonata
- About the Author
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Porter, Pamela Defending Darkness
- ISBN:
- 9781553804710
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