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CHURCH OF THE ROBIN?S HA-HA! IBD

EPIGRAPH PUBLISHING
09 / 2017
9781944037789
Inglés

Sinopsis

Church of the Robin&rsquo,s Ha-Ha!, the title poem of this collection, underscores John Burroughs&rsquo, essentially religious connection to nature. For the famed Catskill naturalist and writer, &ldquo,heaven on earth&rdquo, was no mere cliché, but a reality. Hisáparents&rsquo, Calvinist preoccupation with the heaven to come, seemedáto him tragically misguided and counter-productive. Still, as AnneáRichey reminds us, Burroughs&rsquo, love for the earth was tempered byáeyes determinedly wide open: yes, bird song enchants us, but somewhereáa snake is devouring a baby bird. In other poems, all set in theáCatskills, Richey keeps faith with Burroughs&rsquo, devotion to the near-at-hand &ndash, the sunlit and the dark: a doting mother photographs herátwo boys, a dog cowers in fear, a man appears to walk on water . . .

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16,66