Leaf and Beak: Sonnets - Softcover

Wiggerman, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 094404865X ISBN 13: 9780944048658

Publisher: Purple Flag, 2015

Synopsis

Most mornings for the past decade, poet Scott Wiggerman has walked the trails at Austin's Mueller Lake Park, an urban space created on land that once held the city's airport. Awake to the landscape as he walked, Wiggerman stopped from time to time and jotted a word or phrase for a poem that would come later. Leaf and Beak is the product of these walks, of the poet's ever watchful eye, of the discipline he learned mastering the sonnet. Readers are in good hands here. The sonnets-seventy-five of them-flow so smoothly you can forget you're reading a sonnet and just let the images take you in, the rhythms move you forward. The poems of Leaf and Beak are quiet poems, reflective poems, poems that ask you to walk in stillness for moments at a time, to absorb "the hidden in full view," to appreciate "a lone green leaf / that hangs on like a weekend birthday, deaf / to bitter winds." Wiggerman moves from the observed image, letting some details turn him inward while others lead to meditations on his fellow beings, on the world he walks. "What will / tomorrow bring that now cannot be seen?" he asks. "What change, what wonders to discover?"

About this title

About the Author

Scott Wiggerman is the author of two books of poetry, Presence and Vegetables and Other Relationships, as well as the editor of several volumes, including WINGBEATS: EXERCISES AND PRACTICE IN POETRY (Dos Gatos Press, 2011) and BIG LAND, BIG SKY, BIG HAIR. He has published widely from journals such as Comstock Review, SPILLWAY, Southwestern American Literature, Switched-on Gutenberg, and Hobble Creek Review (which has twice nominated him for a Pushcart); to anthologies such as City of the Big Shoulders, Among the Leaves, Two Southwests, Collecting Life, and This New Breed; to nonfiction texts such as Poetry as Spiritual Practice, The Book of Forms, and Poem, Revised. A popular instructor of poetry workshops, Scott is chief editor for Dos Gatos Press, publisher of the Texas Poetry Calendar.

Edition details

• Publisher: Purple Flag
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 094404865X
• ISBN 13: 9780944048658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102