Minding the Sun
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-64407-3 (ISBN)
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With characteristic sensitivity and intelligence, Robert Pack reflects on man's relation to and responsibilities toward nature. Throughout, his verses are informed with an ecological vigilance born of his devotion to the New England landscape. The opening section marks a return for Pack to the musical sensuality of the lyric. These short lyrics are uniquely his: the sequence begins in Vermont and concludes in the Andromeda galaxy, providing an opportunity to hold in mind the nurturing sun of our solar system. The poems of the collection's middle section, written in the flowing narrative and meditative mode familiar to Pack's many admirers, take up the themes of human sexuality and consciousness. And the final section, replete with puns and paradoxes, shows Pack at his most playful as he muses on art, technology, romantic and marital desire, and the stubborn longing for transcendence. The poet concludes the volume with a sobering plea, "The Trees Will Die," to heed the sun's example, to cherish and protect our planet and all its living things. Robert Pack is the College Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Middlebury College.
He is the author of three critical works and over a dozen books of poetry, including Fathering the Map: New and Selected Later Poems (1993), also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Robert Pack is the Abernethy Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Emeritus at Middlebury College and Distinguished Senior Professor Emeritus of Humanities in the Honors College of the University of Montana, Missoula. He is the author of five prose works and nineteen previous books of poems, most recently Laughter before Sleep, also available from the University of Chicago Press.
Acknowledgments The Place Summer October Lingering The Waiting Eggplant Leaving The Pond Embellishings Listening Loon Calls November Dawn Owl Reflections The Watcher and the Hawk Snow Rise Storm Midwinter Thaw Betrayal Fox Wound The Wall Spring Returns Silence Circle The Merging Her Shoes Reunion Turtles Only in Zoos The Sea Laughter Night Swim Beyond Forgetting Homeward Minding the Sun Observer Hummingbird The Human Eye Rooting for Pleasure Panegyric for a Cockroach The Troll beneath the Bridge The Loss of Estrus Lament of the Male Gamete Falling Away Curing Sleep The Empty Throne Autumn Berries Within Measure The Drake Equation The Barber of Civility Witzelsucht Bonkers My Distant Friend Determination Picnic with Paradox Elegy to the Sun The Trees Will Die
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.4.2001 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 15 x 28 mm |
| Gewicht | 652 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-64407-3 / 0226644073 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-64407-3 / 9780226644073 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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