The Marriage of Space and Time - Softcover

Myers, Jed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936657422 ISBN 13: 9781936657421

Publisher: MoonPath Press, 2019

Synopsis

"These poems find the strange and beautiful in everyday moments: visiting adeli, flying on a plane, sitting on the back steps, noticing a stray cottonwoodtuft, recalling a walk with a child now grown. In this poet's gaze, each elementof the quotidian becomes particular, luminous, and finally, universal. Thiseffect comes from fresh and powerful imagery; from surprising diction,uniquely-apt words used in new ways, as in 'each of us / hung out to die, awish out of water.' The poems move with a freedom born of familiarity withmeter and rhyme, and the lines reverberate with subtle music."--Rebecca Foust, Marin County Poet Laureate and author of Paradise Drive, winner of the Press 53 Award for Poetry"The Marriage of Space and Time is more often than not local in its concerns,even intimate. Such is the nature of this particular marriage, in which we alllive. And die. This ongoing here and now. Also then. 'Our sorrows meet in oneshadow, ' he writes; later on, he concludes, 'I'm old. I'm coming to life.' Myersaims to see as closely and accurately as he can, and in his seeing, he gives hisreaders a way to see as well, and thus to be genuinely alive, in our own timeand space, for as long as we have it."--Robert Wrigley, author of Box and The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems

Edition details

• Publisher: MoonPath Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936657422
• ISBN 13: 9781936657421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114