"The river is largely implicit here," writes Linda Gregerson about her acre of woods. Whether open to view or underground, her river maps communal fate: everything that lives is its direct dependent. The river can also bring infection; it is a branching repository for toxicity. It carries news, much of which is a litany of harm -- recklessness, malice, failures of heart, and failures of attention -- but the poems in WATERBORNE somehow extract from adversity a syntax of devotion. "The past / that has a place for us will know ...
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"The river is largely implicit here," writes Linda Gregerson about her acre of woods. Whether open to view or underground, her river maps communal fate: everything that lives is its direct dependent. The river can also bring infection; it is a branching repository for toxicity. It carries news, much of which is a litany of harm -- recklessness, malice, failures of heart, and failures of attention -- but the poems in WATERBORNE somehow extract from adversity a syntax of devotion. "The past / that has a place for us will know us by / our scattered wake," Gregerson also writes. The resilient tercets in which these poems are written might themselves be thought of as a scattered wake - the luminous record of movement through various lives. These stirring poems can be considered tools for staging daily rescues from oblivion. Their occasions are diverse - a barn fire, a wounded deer, a child's determined struggle with a bicycle - but their instinct is always to wrest from the impure world a vernacular of praise. As Mark Strand has written, "Linda Gregerson's poetry is among the very best being written."
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VG in VG+ jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover with blue paper over boards and blue quarter-binding, in brown and black jacket with Jan van Eyck artwork, 8vo. 66pp. Endnotes. VG/VG+. Pencilled notes erased from several poems, now all clean and unmamred save for two ink-underlined lines p.36 (in "Pass Over"); 1 1/4" crease from former dogear upper corner p.4, away from text. Some dye transfer from lower fron board and spine cloth toinner side of jacket with no associated effects. Mild rubbing along upper rear edge and lower rear corner of jacket. Else clean, tight, and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart.
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Like New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Related ephemera included (a photograph of author).
