Rogers, Pattiann

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An anthology of free- verse poetry dwelling upon reflective human insights and the workings of the mind

Firekeeper: Selected Poems
Pattiann Rogers
Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions
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The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing As Reciprocal Creation (Credo)
Facts About the Moon: Poems
Except by Nature (National Poetry Series)
Delights & Shadows
After: Poems

ASIN: 1571314210

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One of America's major contemporary poets, Pattiann Rogers is known for her penetrating perception, striking imagery, and intricate sense of the often elusive connections between humankind and their world. For Firekeeper, Rogers has assembled her best work, deleting some poems from the original edition and adding others. Here are such resonant older poems as "Suppose Your Father Was a Redbird" and "Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew," along with such masterful new poems as "The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Reciprocal Creation," "Born of a Rib," and "Generations."

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An anthology of free- verse poetry dwelling upon reflective human insights and the workings of the mind .......2005-11-10

Now in a revised and expanded edition featuring contemporary woman poet Pattiann Rogers' own selection from her work, including poems from her five published books since the first edition of "Firekeeper" was released in 1994, Firekeeper: Selected Poems is an anthology of free- verse poetry dwelling upon reflective human insights and the workings of the mind while observing day to day life in both civilization and the wild. The poems are brief yet paint a rich and contemplative canvas awash with imagery of the natural world. Second Witness: The only function of the red-cupped fruit / Hanging from the red stem of the sassafras / Is to reveal the same shiny blue orb of berry / Existing in me. // The only purpose of the row of hemlocks blowing / On the rocky ridge is to give form to the crossed lines / and clicking twigs, the needle- leaf matrix / Of evergreen motion I have always possessed....

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Amazing, inspiring...
Poems Beyond Poetry

Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems
Pattiann Rogers
Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions
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Binding: Paperback

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Sometimes you need to get away from asphalt and smog and take a walk in the woods. Rogers has long been a favorite poet of mine because she not only facilitates an escape into nature, she authorizes it. In this collection of her newer and her best poetry, we metaphorically move throughout the places that nature has prepared for us as one of its own offspring. Take a walk on Rogers's path; it's just a little wild--and exceptionally peace-giving.

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Amazing, inspiring..........2002-09-14

Pattiann rogers writes with the kind of grace that words were invented for. Her poems are often funny, sometimes sad, and always thought-provoking. I highly recommend her book for both those who love poems and those who usually do not. Wonderful book...

Poems Beyond Poetry.......1998-01-24

As a general rule, I dislike reading poetry. However, someone recommended this book to me, and reading it has changed not only my view of poetry but how I think in the world. Crafted with care, the poems found in this volume offer an intimate view of nature, life, and a basics that could be termed humanity. Science and nature are blended with a profound yet simple eloquence in poetry that makes the English language dance.As a general rule, I dislike reading poetry. However, someone recommended this book to me, and reading it has changed not only my view of poetry but how I think in the world. Crafted with care, the poems found in this volume offer an intimate view of nature, life, and something basic that could be termed humanity. Science and nature are blended with a profound yet simple eloquence in poetry that makes the English language dance.

The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing As Reciprocal Creation (Credo)

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A Book for Friends, Mainly
This is an exquisite book of keen wit and redoubtable spirit

The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing As Reciprocal Creation (Credo)
Pattiann Rogers
Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1571312250

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A poet, a mother, a lover of the land, and a student of zoology, Pattiann Rogers is at home in the vocabulary of nature. The Dream of the Marsh Wren reveals the genesis of some of her most admired poems as well as her conception of how and why she writes.

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A Book for Friends, Mainly.......1999-12-29

Rogers' poems are so breathless, so intense, they require the captivated attention of their reader--fortunately they are good enough to command it. This book of Rogers' reflections on the genesis of her poetry is a book for friends and fans only--it is not a neutral enough book on craft, the writers' life, work habits, etc. that a general reader would find useful--I think poets like Mary Oliver, Donald Hall, Lisel Mueller have written better general audience books. Even for a fan of Rogers, the prose reflections are a little sparse and not very deeply probing until nearly half way through the book when Rogers begins dealing with her scientific background and concerns. Had she begun earlier, or had the book been longer, it might have gone in another direction--what does become clear are the motivations, designs, and methodology of Rogers' brilliant writing--all worth the price of admission.

This is an exquisite book of keen wit and redoubtable spirit.......1999-07-20

I loved the poems in this book!. They are pleasantly elusive, requiring thoughtful participation on the part of the reader, but they are not so abstract as to be incomprehensible. Rogers provides images and language, ideas and propositions, that are precise and innovative. This book is a gift that I will reread as a favorite.

Song of the World Becoming: Poems, New and Collected, 1981-2001

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An Outstanding Collection
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Song of the World Becoming: Poems, New and Collected, 1981-2001
Pattiann Rogers
Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing As Reciprocal Creation (Credo)
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ASIN: 157131413X

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This book collects all of Pattiann Rogers's published work, plus 40 new poems. Her subject matter is at once broad — defining divinity, achieving serenity — and specific, as she sees with a keen eye “the neon needle of a damsel fly hovering and vanishing.” Her poems are complex, multilayered confections ... of detailed, whirling thought.” — Poetry Flash

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An Outstanding Collection.......2002-01-07

Rogers is clearly amongst the very finest contemporary American poets. A superb, beautifully written collection containing such poetic gems as "The Hummingbird: A Seduction". A treasured book in my poetry library by a gifted, important writer.

Morten Lauridsen, Composer

Praise for Song of the World Becoming.......2001-08-07

Book Magazine, July/August 2001: "Rogers offers a deeply satisfying, sometimes shocking reading experience, yielding a wonderful mixture that echoes Annie Dillard, Mary Oliver, D.H. Lawrence and Walt Whitman. Yet Rogers' is a distinctive, fresh voice. She deserves a wider readership, and we are in debt to her publisher for this fine book."

Poetry East - Origins: Poets on the Composition Process (#43 Fall 1996) (43)

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Poetry East - Origins: Poets on the Composition Process (#43 Fall 1996) (43)
Mary Oliver , Tess Gallagher , Pattiann Rogers , Thomas Lynch , Alan Shapiro , Susan Hahn , Reginald Gibbons , and Robert Bly
Manufacturer: Depaul University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Poets included: Marvin Bell, Reginald Gibbons, Robert Bly, Tony Hoagland, Marianne Boruch, Gail Mazur, Kevin Stein, Jeffrey Skinner, Dorianne Lux, Kim Addonizio, and many more.

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A Generational Sheaf
Pattiann, nothing short of astonishing

Generations
Pattiann Rogers
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing As Reciprocal Creation (Credo)
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ASIN: 0142004502
Release Date: 2004-05-25

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Pattiann Rogers, one of America's finest contemporary poets, has won a reputation for densely detailed, thickly textured poems describing the natural world and one's place in it that are informed by a broad knowledge of science. In the tradition of Emerson, Whitman, and A. R. Ammons, Rogers's wise and complex poems read like a series of witty but deeply felt explorations of the physical world and the presence of the divine, exuding much observational care and descriptive panache. Her new collection, Generations, consists of fifty-four poems that concern themselves not just with the notion of the generations of life, but “generations” in the sense of energy, change, replication, and continuity—the entire process of coming or bringing into being.

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A Generational Sheaf.......2005-03-07

Sometimes I wonder why poetry has attracted so many people who should really be writing prose instead. A poem like "Aspiring, Now and Then" would be perfectly fine if written without line breaks: "I've climbed similar staircases/ before, ascending windowless/ cathedral towers up to high-wind/ belfries where birds swoop and circle,/ up to walkways to sudden sun/ shining on red-tiled rooftops." That's all very well, but why try to make it into a poem? Well for one thing it allows you to make drama out of an ordinary set of steps. (To say, "I've climbed similar staircases before," as though she lived in a medieval village and had done this dozens of times before, is in itself a masterpiece of concise condescension.)

People compare her to Wallace Stevens, to which I say, they haven't really read Wallace Stevens then.

There are some good poems here, such as the poem about the "Stray Cat, Black And White" which will appeal to nature lovers among us, and lovers of cute little pets, of which I plead guilty, but this is not the stuff of which reputations are made, and seeing the amazing acclaim on the back of this book for Ms. Rogers it makes me despair of poetry overkill.

Pattiann, nothing short of astonishing.......2004-07-18

I've read only the sample poem so far--but I've read many of Rogers' works. As a poet, I even read her poems--just spotting through them--as I write: her words are so highly charged, we almost gasp with joy reading. She's one of the greats, and she doesn't leave out the spiritual element. (Paul Twitchell's The Flute of God would be a fine companion book for this one--for a good divine love overview/inspiration.)

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Legendary Performance
Pattiann Rogers
Manufacturer: Ion Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

The Tattooed Lady in the Garden (Wesleyan Poetry)

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The Tattooed Lady in the Garden (Wesleyan Poetry)
Pattiann Rogers
Manufacturer: Wesleyan University Press
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0819551457

Generations. (Poetry).(Poem): An article from: The Antioch Review

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Generations. (Poetry).(Poem): An article from: The Antioch Review
Pattiann Rogers
Manufacturer: Antioch Review, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 382 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. Citation Details
Title: Generations. (Poetry).(Poem)
Author: Pattiann Rogers
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: 60 Issue: 1 Page: 76(3) Article Type: Poem Distributed by Thomson Gale

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Eating Bread and Honey
Pattiann Rogers
Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions
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Earthy Pattiann Rogers again has blessed poetry readers with her seventh collection, Eating Bread and Honey. Rogers's poems are a sensual treat, yet are all the better for you because they're "all natural." As a devoted, respectful participant in the natural world, she speaks of its intricacies so intimately that you see each small detail as panoramic landscape: the orange that houses a god, the human eye that "has no will of its own" but moves and grows in its awe of living creatures, the proper study of love that can occur only with nature as a backdrop and bower. Her poems bring you back to what is real and alive.

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