Neither Created Nor Destroyed - Softcover

Burt, Lucile

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0922558655 ISBN 13: 9780922558650

Publisher: Poet's Press, The, 2012

Synopsis

This is the 14th Annual Philbrick Poetry Project prize-winning chapbook, published by The Poet's Press for The Providence Athenaeum. Lucile Burt's manuscript was chosen by Rhode Island Poet Laureate Lisa Starr, who wrote, " “Hearty, glad praise for Neither Created Nor Destroyed, 2012 Philbrick Poetry Award Honoree. The reader should prepare for a bit of a journey led by a poet comfortable in many realms: the natural world, family, education, and work appear and reappear in this collection, and through the poet’s unique blend of sensitivity and language, these seemingly familiar themes become transformed. These are textured poems, some as ruddy as the old farmer who peoples one of them, and others as comforting as ‘waves’ that ‘break like heartbeats.’ Lucile Burt knows the mind and heart of surf-caster and sullen schoolgirl alike; she understands the difficulties of love, the beautiful pain of caring for an elderly parent, and the wisdom of the riverbed, and through these poems, delivers ‘the riotous chorus of matter’ to us freshly washed and brand new.”

Edition details

• Publisher: Poet's Press, The
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0922558655
• ISBN 13: 9780922558650
• Binding: Paperback