Holy Heathen Rhapsody (Penguin Poets)
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143123882 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sue T. said Bravo. As always Pattiann Rogers is able to incarnate the spirit into the flesh of this world through words. Gathering, entering every smallest, cosmic atom and second of our lifecycle, she opens our blind eyes to the miracles of this world. She is a magi, a healer, an alchemist living stubbornly amongst us, singing rhapsodies to keep us warm.. "If your heart feels numb, this poetry will breathe passion and beauty back into it" according to B. Hinnefeld. Pattiann Rogers is my favorite contemporary poet. Her poetry dazzles me and pierces to the core. It brings tears to my eyes waking up any numb or dull places with the memory of how beautiful this earth is. I am grateful for poems like these--when so much of life in our world seems harsh or all about consumerism and corporate unfeelingness, these poems remind us what it is to be intimately connected to the earth, to be part of it . Sensuous, brllliant, intricate, luminous. Truly a rhapsody. Her best yet Doug Fir If you like Whitman, Keats, and Oliver, you'll love Rogers. These poems show us in so many tangled, surprising ways how the spiritual and corporeal move as one through and around us. As they expand our imaginations, we find the grandest point meets somewhere in the middle with the lowliest. Some of these poems make me chuckle, then leave me in wonder. The lead poem, "Yearning Ways," extends the work Roethke begins in "Root Cellar." This book is her best yet. When I took a couple of these
Praise for Pattiann Rogers:“If only one word could be used to describe Rogers’ poetry, it would have to be cosmic because her ravishing lyrical and imaginative poems embrace the vastness and interlocking wonders of the universe. Her poems are translations of our dreaming life—what we know to be true but fail to remember. We read her words, sentence by sentence, image by image, and return to all that is beautiful, mysterious, and erotic.”—Terry Tempest Williams“Pattiann Rogers is a visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed. But however it happens, we must be thankful—for both the science text and the psalter of her work, for both the physical abundance and for the spirit flimmering over it.”—Albert Goldbarth. Her language, unmarred by clichés, springs up
Love in these poems is a force infused with the same creative power and intensity, the purest manifestation of the will-to-be. This vision and its making contend that even a shadow or a floating seed, a frond of green or a midnight spider, even a mongrel dog, wind over water, the human voice, the human witness, peace and weapons, all—every aspect and feature encountered—are fully endowed players in the dynamic music of the Earth.. New work from an award-winning poet who “writes transporting poems of discovery, contemplation, and gratitude” (Booklist)Pattiann Rogers has won acclaim as one of the most original voices in contemporary
She lives in Colorado. She is the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for poetry. Pattiann Rogers has published eleven books of poetry; two book-length essay collections, The Dream of the Marsh Wren and The Grand Array; and A Covenant of Seasons, poems and monotypes,