Tender gravity : poems / Marybeth Holleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holleman, Marybeth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Moon.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (84 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California : Boreal Books, [2022]

Summary:

"tender gravity charts Marybeth Holleman's quest for relationship to the more-than-human world, navigating her childhood in North Carolina to her life in Alaska, with deep time in remote land and seascapes. Always the focus is on what can be found by attention to the world beyond her own human skin, what can be found there as she negotiates loss-the loss of beloved places, wild beings, her younger brother. "do not think," she says to her mother, "that i love a bear more than my brother. / think instead that i cannot distinguish / the variations in / the beat of a heart." Inevitably, solace is found in the wild world: "step back toward that joy-sap rising, step back / into the only world that is." In a narrative arc of seeking, falling, and finding, we hear in Holleman's exquisitely attentive immersion clear reverberations of Mary Oliver, of Linda Hogan, of Walt Whitman. These poems of grief and celebration pulse in and out, reaching to the familiar moon and out to orphan stars of distant galaxies, then pull close to a small brown seabird and an on-the-knees view of a tiny bog plant"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgments

Contents

Dedication

I

The Beating Heart, Minus Gravity

Prodigal

Rock Poem

another form

The Fantastic Skies of Orphan Stars

East Fork

Sphagnum

Want

At a Poetry Reading

Geminid

Marbled Murrelets

In the Garden, Early May

Birch I

The Outer Coast

II

Sundew: from that which appears inconsequential

How to Grieve a Glacier

Bright Sungrazing Comet II

Skull

Culross Passage, Five Months After

thoughts on a black bear, charging

Farther

Out

Refugium

Bishop Rock

December 21, 2016

The Summer Garden

And the Geese

Orionid

the faint white curve of the moon

Passing Through the Barren Islands

every rock

III

Yesterday, on the familiar trail

Dispatch from Siberia

All the Notes

the warm dark

Not the Moon

Campbell Creek, August 5th

Fortuitous

Whales at Night

skating after many moons

The Remembered Earth

Williwaw

with

Paper Clay

52

Biographical Note.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-59709-952-X

OCLC:

1334103912