Among Others
Language: English
Published by Xlibris Sep 2007, 2007
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Neuware - Book DescriptionI. AMONG OTHERS, Marie Reilly's third collection of poems, considers the bittersweet collision of memory of long-held relationships with a life engaged in forming new ones.II. The pleasurable creativity in events that offer the company of women forms the basis of the first segment, titled 'One Among Others.'Reed/sOne reed and othershollow, one and allin shallow waters flourish.In shallows refreshin sun enliven aswarmlight throbs andfills the hollows.One by onethey give up their songto the winds. Ohlisten!In 'Yearning,' the author responds to a sense of aging and the promise in a late-life aspiration to write poetry.On the WingBirds in flight from snow, and Anglos:The sky grays as now theyevery last mountain climband night draws nigh.Oh, aspire to wildness in stancein running, on bike and rock and ice scale heights.Pack a rucksack with desirecut fresh trails through the daysand through every remaining field and stream.The third segment, 'Confession,' addresses the greatest consequence of her move to the southwest-the loosened ties to long-held and very dear friendships.FidelityWho crave me stillaccept the substitutea reconfigured me.In mein my ruminationsthey find expression ofsustenancein a late-life diet of writing:a nourishment, taken withthe caress of late autumn breezea late-life dietat early winter.Blessed somy shoulders my arm my hand my penrelax in their late-autumn, andtransform the time.Oh, the carter's truck asserts itself.Shoulder, arm, hand, pen, tense to transformits unmistakable roar.Who crave a letter from me amidthat volcanic rumble, mustaccept the replacement now.In 'Around the Rectangular Table,' the poet returns to the seductive character in local scenes.With EstelaI ignored the old townthe dirty earth, the rutted roadbut not the dumpsters sporting painted morning glories.A mongrel gaped, we paused, he turned awayand disabused us of our fears.I cheered Estela as she plucked a pomegranate, the plumpest one.The sun wrapped itself around our shoulders.And with Estela, I remembered dear ones.I remembered a mother and a father, toowith EstelaShe dares to proclaim herself a poet and to commit to a writing life in 'In Full View.'Face of a Woman WriterGrayed eyes, silvered hairface marked by indelible sun:she embraces all or noneor one.She is a bookand you are welcome to read thestrange matters. Her gaze reflects the time she looks likeno need (now) for guile.Face it: pink, mottledage-spotted, slack.Writer, author, mother's daughter:Pen to page, she does not stopshe plies the trade until it paperbacks.The author cares yet, ten years lateron bright and breezy daysin a southwest desert, she hangs her headtoo determined to be the writer she isto be the friendshe was.Two other events of great moment stir her soul and form the basis for the final two segments. 'Mother, in memoriam' is a meditation on loss, and 'In Love' celebrates the poet's marriage.Autobiography, IIWhen I was a childI sang to myself in aroom that was my own roomall alone.When my mother drew meto her side, on the sofaI learned to sing closeharmony.If anyone was askingfor a wee mother's helper'Pick me,' I sang. 'I ama big girl.'And here I am, thegirl who's lost her motherkeening mournful songs.Desolate!Changing PlacesI've changed my place in life at lastto be at my love's sideto hold him dear at mine.as at a shore, face to face witha vast immutable force, the ever-changing seaI do not fearits mysterious music to hear.III. As in Marie Reilly's two previous collections, each poem in AMONG OTHERS - there are 77 in all - sits on the page to be enjoyed in and of itself. But the poet presents an additional.…
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- Title
- Among Others
- Author
- Marie A Reilly
- Publisher
- Xlibris Sep 2007
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Buch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1425760376
- ISBN 13
- 9781425760373
- Item weight
- 481 grams
- Dimensions
- 229x152x16 mm
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