Rosetree - Softcover

Loomis, Sabra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0914086855 ISBN 13: 9780914086857

Publisher: Alice James Books, 1989

In Rosetree, a strong lyrical voice turns the spirit to account, translates its inner workings into art. These poems touch the spirit; in them we see how we think. The poet has listened deeply to the voices of nature in animals, rivers, trees, children, artists; from the languages of her Ohio childhood to the speech of the seasons in Yugoslavia, where she lived as a musician for eight years.

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Book Description and Reviews
In Rosetree, a strong lyrical voice turns the spirit to account, translates its inner workings into art. These poems touch the spirit; in them we see how we think. The poet has listened deeply to the voices of nature in animals, rivers, trees, children, artists; from the languages of her Ohio childhood to the speech of the seasons in Yugoslavia, where she lived as a musician for eight years.

Reviews

"Sabra Loomis's poems are full of wonder, like a drop of water or blood on a child's finger held up to the light, and full of yearning too. This magical book records a surprising past, as dreamy and as sharp as fairytales." -Jean Valentine

"This is a first book of fine and mature poems." -Yehuda Amichai

"These poems ring with the whole life of their poet, in phrasing as delightingly sure as that of good music." -William Alfred

"I'm very taken by the sensibility that informs these poems. Ms. Loomis has somehow found a way to give voice to exquisite areas of consciousness- 'cool and orbed and many-layered,' as one of these poems puts it- that have seldom found expression. How nourishing and delightful it is to walk through the cool rooms and breezy passages of these poems." -Richard Tillinghast

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