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Except by Nature (National Poetry Series)
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Sandra Alcosser's third book of poetry, a National Poetry Series winner selected by Eamon Grennan, rewards you with a walk through nature's mysteries and beauty--and the maze of human nature. Like nature, the climate of the poems is not always comfortable, but the language is exquisite and clear.
One of Alcosser's frequent themes is the cost of courage. In "Card Game Blind River," the speaker braves alligator gar and other swamp denizens to make camp. But when rattlesnakes awaken in the cabin's attic, she must steel herself so that her companions won't "hear the high 'e' of my mind." In the prose poem "A Warrior's Tale," Rachel, who is at a party, suffers through listening to the story of a young woman's rape and survival, all the while recalling her own assault. She breaks down, but only "in another room so that the men could not see her."
Spirituality waits in abundance in the natural world. The poem "The Anatomy of Air" explains, "when the world is too sharp / I walk toward the canyon" where "wind slicks back the needles" and sadness dissipates, "duffled, / by the palpitating air." In "Flame," a husband leaves his wife for a winter, after cutting and cording "the most resonant pines of our life" to keep her warm and to keep him on her mind. In his absence, "they would be / his bolt of news unfurling, my face flushed red / and red again by the hot inquiring tongues." Except by Nature invites you to return to its poems again and again. --Susan Swartwout
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Except by Nature is the winner of the 1998 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets.
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Except By Nature
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A Fish to Feed All Hunger
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In Sandra Alcosser's collection, A Fish to Feed All Hunger, nature follows the inevitable, and yet somehow beautiful, course towards rot and decay. These poems are peopled with souls who either embrace the beauty and mystery of this life cycle or vainly struggle against it. But always, life's decay takes on the colorful images of rust, lichen, brilliant fungi, peacock moths, and faded photographs. As she observes in her poem "He Didn't Speak," nature's colors don't fade with the passing of time as one might expect: "Images grown more brilliant each year/ as lichen do when they eat stone, dissolving/ the color within, breaking it to pieces."
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Avant-gardist in the forest.(Essays)(Lorine Niedecker)(Critical Essay): An article from: The Antioch Review
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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2988 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.<BR><BR><strong>Citation Details</strong>
<strong>Title:</strong> Avant-gardist in the forest.(Essays)(Lorine Niedecker)(Critical Essay)
<strong>Author:</strong> Sandra Alcosser
<strong>Publication:</strong> <em>The Antioch Review</em> (Refereed)
<strong>Date:</strong> January 1, 2004
<strong>Publisher:</strong> Antioch Review, Inc.
<strong>Volume:</strong> 62 <strong>Issue:</strong> 1 <strong>Page:</strong> 28(10)<BR><BR>Article Type: Critical Essay<BR><BR>Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Each bone a prayer: [poems]
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Sleeping inside the glacier
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