Reckoning (Paperback)

Patrick Friesen

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Language: English

Published by Anvil Press Publishers Inc, 2023

1772142166 / 9781772142167

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Paperback. Reckoning is one long poem in search of itself, its own meaning. A synecdoche of verse, segments calling and responding to each other, like jazz musicians riffing back and forth in a late-night smokey speakeasy. Snippets of conversation make it through the air, across the space that seems vast even in its closeness. We are big, we are small, there is eternity in a birdcall. This is end times, yet beginnings surround us. They are there in memory, in grief, in happiness and in song. Here is a master poet taking stock in later years. Adrift and grounded, lost in memories that are alive in the present and also lost to history, the artist's mind cannot help but speculate and wonder about the navigation of it all. How does one chart the course? How did one chart the course? And what was discovered along the way? Joy, awe, grief, loss, wonder . . . "disappearing into the mind of the dream, / that opening," and now all rolled into one ball of what, wisdom? "what was my early life, banging away at that padlocked gate? . . . is this where the return begins? starting over in old age, body falling apart according to plan, and no blossoming wisdom, kneeling on the muddy riverbank, thirsty once again for mind, . . . and when the brain falters the stories skew once more into something unfamiliar, something from long before you, and those pieces won't be put together again, not ever, will they?" What connects us with the past?&nbspMemory and story.&nbspEach fragment a part of the whole. Without it we exist in isolation.&nbspFriesen's deep and careful observations make Reckoning both intensely personal and universal. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Title
Reckoning (Paperback)
Author
Patrick Friesen
Publisher
Anvil Press Publishers Inc
Publication year
2023
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
1772142166
ISBN 13
9781772142167

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